Welcome to Polar Sea Adventures

Established in 1989, award-winning Arctic adventure company, Polar Sea Adventures, provides high quality adventure programs that promote environmental and cultural awareness and respect. Polar Sea is sensitive to the effects of travel on the areas we visit. We remain actively dedicated to the protection of the Arctic and strive to play a role in encouraging responsible and ethical development of this incredible, unique and important part of our planet.

Polar Sea adheres to the highest standards of minimum impact camping and travel activities. We carry a caring understanding of the fragile Arctic landscape and environment, the animals that live here and the enduring Inuit hunting culture. Through exclusive and exciting adventure trips and expeditions, Polar Sea makes a policy of employing local Inuit guides as much as possible - thus creating tangible and important benefits to the local economy and community. In recent years Polar Sea has expanded and now offers consulting, logistics and planning services. An increasing part of the companies business involves customised trips and special projects. Polar Sea is the only adventure company in Nunavut to specialize in film and television production work.

ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS - Expeditions for the Planet

The effects of a changing climate are being felt in many parts of the world, particularly in the Arctic. Arctic-based Polar Sea Adventures is seeing firsthand and year round the changes taking place. The company has decided to make a difference by presenting the Arctic Expeditions Project. The project will feature new and exciting Arctic expeditions relying on scheduled air services - thereafter little or no motorized transportation will be used. These expeditions will provide clients with world exclusive, exciting and unique Arctic wilderness experiences. Human powered travel and expeditions have always held a special place in Arctic exploration history. Limited to six adventurers and two guides, the trips have been designed to have minimum impact on the fragile Arctic environment. No other company in the world offers such trips in one of the most remote wilderness areas on the planet. Nowhere else in the entire Arctic is such a roster of special expeditions offered. Polar Sea is proud to present Arctic Expeditions - explorations that will write a new greener chapter in Arctic adventure tourism

Since moving to the Canadian Arctic in 1989, David Reid (owner/guide of Polar Sea) has led, organised and participated in more than 300 Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, trips and projects. A member of The International Explorers Club, David lives in Pond Inlet in North Baffin Island and travels extensively in the off-season, promoting and marketing Polar Sea, Nunavut and Arctic Canada.

Polar Sea wouldn't exist without the clients from all over the world who have travelled with the company over the years. This website is gratefully dedicated to all of you.

We invite you to take a look at our Arctic world through the photographs contained on this website.

Welcome to Polar Sea Adventures.

Above: David Reid
(Photo by Lee Narraway)

Top Left: Sea kayaking among -
iceberg pinacles

Top Middle: Lone hiker -
Mount Herodier
(Photo by Daryl Benson)

Top Right: Mother polar bear -
and her cubs
(Photo by Ian Robinson)

All photographs on this website
taken by David Reid, unless
otherwise specified.