Herald Island

We dropped anchor on the west side of Herald Island, 60 km east of Wrangel Island just after breakfast. Herald Island is known for its busy bird cliffs, a high density of Polar Bear dens and the place were a group of people from the Canadian Arctic Expedition lived after they left their camp on the sea ice in February 1914. We explored the western coast of Herald in our Zodiacs and observed five Polar Bears on the coastline and at least five more in the distance. We wanted to land on the only gravel beach of the island, but a group of walruses and a female Polar Bear and her cub were already resting there. In order to not disturb them we watched from a distance before heading back to the ship.