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  • Green northern lights arcing above black spruce on the tundra outside Churchill, Manitoba.
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    The Churchill Trifecta: Belugas, Bears and Northern Lights in One Day

    14–22 August 2026 · Churchill, Manitoba

    Nine days in Manitoba with Discover Churchill in beluga season. Hundreds of belugas in the Churchill River, twenty-three polar bears on the coast, and northern lights on two nights. On the nineteenth we had all three between sunrise and midnight — the reason to come in August rather than November.

  • A polar bear walking through driving snow on the tundra outside Churchill, Manitoba.
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    Eighty-Three Polar Bears: Nine Days in Churchill

    16–25 November 2024 · Churchill, Manitoba

    Nine days in Manitoba with Discover Churchill, timed for the polar bear gathering on Hudson Bay. Eighty-three bears in six days on the tundra, including one that walked past us at arm's length, plus foxes, ptarmigan, Arctic hare and owls. We arrived to open water and left as the bears were walking out onto new ice.

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Chris Commisso standing beside a glacial lagoon in Iceland, with icebergs and a snow-covered mountain behind him.

Chris Commisso · Expedition Expert

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Chris and Erika have sailed ten expedition voyages and toured seven more expedition ships. Favorite explorations so far: Antarctica, Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Alaska, the Galápagos, the Scottish Hebrides, Churchill and French Polynesia.

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