A luxury cruise ship that ran aground earlier this week in a remote part of Greenland with 206 people on board has been pulled free by a fishing trawler.
The Ocean Explorer vessel had been stuck since Monday in mud and silt in Alpefjord national park, some 1,400km northeast of Greenland's capital Nuuk.
"We have successfully become free now ... We are absolutely elated," Gina Hill, an Australian passenger on board the ship, said.
The Ocean Explorer leaned to the side during the operation and passengers were not allowed to go outside, Ms Hill added.
The Danish military's Joint Arctic Command confirmed that the ship had been pulled free by the Tarajoq, a trawler and research vessel that made a failed attempted to do so yesterday.
The Ocean Explorer will be taken to a port to assess any damage, while the passengers will be flown home, said SunStone Maritime Group, which owns the ship.
"There have not been any injuries to any person onboard, no pollution of the environment and no breach of the hull," SunStone said in a statement.
Sydney-based Aurora Expeditions chartered the ship and organised the cruise.
Greenland, a semi-sovereign territory of Denmark in the North Atlantic Ocean with a population of just 57,000, attracts tourists with its rugged landscape and a vast ice cap that covers much of the island.
