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Polar Star Expeditions

 

 

This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of the expedition cruise ship Polar Star.

 

Polar Star was built in 1969 as the Swedish icebreaker Njord. She was converted into an expedition cruise ship in 2000.

 

The Polar Star is the expedition cruising vessel of Polar Star Expeditions. This company, headquartered in Halifax, Canada, is a Norwegian company owned by Karlsen Shipping Company. Karlsen Shipping was founded by the Karlsen Family more than 100 years ago in Norway in the 1800s and expanded to Canada in 1940. The company has extensive experience in marine industries and the Polar regions.

 

Today all operations are headquartered in Halifax, Canada. Our President, Martin Karlsen is the great grandson of the founder, Karl Karlsen. Martin's great grandfather opened the coalmines in Kings Bay in Spitsbergen, Svalbard at the beginning of the last century. Martin's grandfather pioneered polar shipping. Today Karlsen Shipping is involved in diverse marine activities including offshore supply and standby vessels, harvesting and research vessels and the expedition cruising vessel Polar Star. In addition to these two "firsts", Karlsen also introduced the first Canadian single-purpose standby rescue vessel, the Tem. Today Karlsen Shipping is proud to own and operate the first expedition cruise vessel with operations headquartered in Atlantic Canada.

 

Karlsen Shipping is a well-established, innovative, adaptable and changeable company that has diversified and grown over the past 60 years. The launch of the Polar Star and Polar Star Expeditions shows the vision and foresight that the organization has to diversity and excellence.

 

 

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Polar Star

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Polar Star was built in 1969 as the Swedish Njord. She was converted into an expedition cruise ship in 2000.

 

 

Polar Star as Njord

Scan: © POLAR STAR EXPEDITIONS, courtesy Jane Sproull Thomson

 

 

Official postcard of Polar Star at Spitzbergen

Scan: John Ward Phillips

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Photograph of Polar Star at Lerwick, Shetland

Photo: © John Ward Phillips

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Photo: © John Ward Phillips

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Photograph of Polar Star at Lerwick, Shetland

Photo: © John Ward Phillips, 27th May 2007

 

 

Photograph of Polar Star at Lerwick, Shetland

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Photo: © John Ward Phillips, 27th May 2007

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