Photos: Cruise ship pulled free after running aground in Greenland

Copenhagen: A luxury cruise ship that ran aground this week in a remote Greenland location with 206 people on board has been pulled free by a trawler, a spokesperson for Denmark's armed forces said on Thursday.

The Ocean Explorer cruise vessel had since Monday been stuck in mud and silt in the Alpefjord national park, some 1,400 km (870 miles) northeast of Greenland's capital Nuuk.

The ship’s owner, Copenhagen-based SunStone Ships, said that it was done “based on a pull from the vessel (owned by the Greenland government) and vessel’s own power. There have not been any injuries to any person onboard, no pollution of the environment and no breach of the hull.”

The cruise ship ran aground above the Arctic Circle on Monday in Alpefjord , which is in the Northeast Greenland National Park, the world’s northernmost national park.

The park is nearly the size of France and Spain combined, and approximately 80% is permanently covered by an ice sheet . Alpefjord sits about 240 kilometers (149 miles) away from the closest settlement, Ittoqqortoormiit, which itself is nearly 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) from the country’s capital, Nuuk.

Armed forces personnel stationed in Greenland have inspected the Ocean Explorer and spoken to those on board, concluding that they were in good condition.