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MS The World - The ship became the largest passenger vessel to transit the Northwest Passage

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MS The World - The ship became the largest passenger vessel to transit the Northwest Passage
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Setting sail from Nome, Alaska, U.S. on 18 Aug 2012 and reaching Nuuk, Greenland on 12 Sept 2012, the ship became the largest passenger vessel to transit the Northwest Passage.[3][4] The ship, carrying 481 passengers and crew, for 26 days and 4,800 nautical miles at sea, followed in the path of Captain Roald Amundsen, the first sailor to complete the journey in 1906.[5]

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