The Innuit have a specific word – iktsuarpok – to describe the anguish of waiting. By day three of waiting for my flight to Greenland, I am feeling a strong sense of iktsuarpok. The majority of visito

Winters are long and summers are short in the north of the Arctic Circle. Keith Allan joins Swan Hellenic’s Diana on a 10-day Norwegian odyssey, taking in ‘cod’s own country’

Take a winter road trip from Iceland’s second city, Akureyri, through a northern peninsula framed by fjords and punctuated by isolated herring-fishing villages.

This phenomenon turns seas and other large bodies of water into a mirror-like surface

If you’re driving north, be careful of the reindeer,” said Father Christmas as I sat beside him at Santa Claus’s Main Post Office in Rovaniemi. “We have 230,000 reindeer here in Finland,” he said, “bu

There is considerably less sea-ice in the Arctic than there used to be. Thanks to global warming, Arctic sea-ice is melting faster in the spring and taking longer to form in the autumn. Scientists who