The most realistic way of reaching the lodge is by light aircraft – and a 900 mile flight from Yellowknife. Arctic Watch is way inside the Arctic Circle; a place where few visitors venture, set on the bleak-but-beautiful vastness of Somerset Island. Not many people reach here on their luxury, tailor-made holidays to the Arctic, but you will not be alone.

Arctic Watch Lodge stands less than a mile from the favourite summer destination of huge numbers of beluga whales. You’ll discover – on a polar safari with one of the most travelled North Pole explorers in the world – that the surrounding wilderness is also roamed by hunting polar bears and herds of musk ox, Arctic foxes and a wide variety of wheeling birds calling noisily into the clear blue air.