Luxury Cruise Ship Gets Unstuck After Four Days in Greenland’s Arctic

  • Vessel had been lodged since Monday, stranding hundreds
  • Luxury cruise ship was carrying many Australian tourists
The grounded Ocean Explorer in Alpefjord, Greenland, on Sept. 13.Source: Sirius/Joint Arctic Command
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The luxury cruise ship that ran aground in a remote Arctic area of Greenland and had been stuck there since Monday is once again afloat.

The Ocean Explorer was dragged free by a fishing research vessel owned by Greenland’s government, Denmark’s military’s Joint Arctic Command said in a brief Facebook statement on Thursday.