Hurtigruten Nordnorge – 11,386 GT – Built 1997 by Kværner Kleven in Ulsteinvik, Norway Day Visit 21/06/2011.

The MS Nordnorge (literally: Northern Norway) is a Hurtigruten (Norwegian Coastal Express) ship. It was built in 1997 by Kværner Kleven in Ulsteinvik, Norway, as a sister ship to MS Polarlys and MS Nordkapp. The Nordnorge has a crew capacity of 57, and can carry up to 691 passengers. Since 2002 the Nordnorge has been employed in Antarctic cruise service during the northern hemisphere winter. She is classed as a Polarlys-class Cruiseferry. There have been four Hurtigruten ships with the name of Nordnorge, which is Norwegian for "Northern Norway" - the common name of the three northern Norwegian counties. During 2009 Nordnorge did not operate on the coast of Norway. Very little information about its employment has been released by the owners but it appears that the ship was hired out at the end of 2008 as a hotel ship in the Mediterranean, possibly in Venice. We were allowed to visit her to look round when we were docked at Honningsvag, Norway on Grand Princess.