{"id":14240,"date":"2026-02-13T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=14240"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:37:34","slug":"hurtigruten-coastal-explorer-day-8-hammerfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=14240","title":{"rendered":"Hurtigruten Coastal Explorer – Day 8 (Hammerfest)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’d already stopped at three ports by the time we woke up this morning: Mehamn, Kj\u00f8llefjord and Honningsv\u00e5g. We popped up on deck to watch the sail into Hav\u00f8ysund<\/strong>. It was a stunning sail-in especially when the sun peeked out from behind the clouds throwing down some wonderful pinky-blue shades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kong Harold was waiting for us a little way off as they were docking just after us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next stop – breakfast. We are being quite spoilt on board. Smoked Salmon for breakfast (and lunch!) every day!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were out on deck for the today’s point of interest – the very “picturesque” Milk Island<\/strong>, located close to Hammerfest. The expedition team were being sarcastic when saying it was picturesque … it’s now the home of Norway’s LNG processing plant. It only opened in 2007 and the profits covered the construction costs by the end of 2015. Most of the gas is exported to France, Spain and Germany with a ship arriving every five days on average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An impressive amount of snow had landed on deck this morning and where the snow had drifted, it was a little icy in places. David (Expedition Team) tested and nearly fell over! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside the Point of Interest, the kitchen were serving a special coffee up on deck. Not really to our taste and didn’t take anything more than a sip.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We’ve two short stops where we can get off today – the first being Hammerfest<\/strong>. We arrived late into port so we only had 1 hour 15 minutes and our mission today was to become members of The Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society<\/strong><\/a>. You cannot sign up remotely, you have to go the Society HQ in Hammerfest and sign up here. We are now proud to be members 287781 and 287782. We have a certificate and polar bear pin badge as part of the membership!<\/p>\n\n\n

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