It sounds like the sort of story you would read in newspapers on 1 April: Australia takes delivery of new icebreaker.
But the ship, the 24,000 tonne RSV Nuyina (built 2021), has left Vlissingen in the Netherlands on a seven-week voyage to its new home in Hobart, Tasmania.
Nuyina, means Southern Lights in palawa kani, the language of Tasmanian Aborigines and was selected as part of the Australian government's "Name our Icebreaker" competition, which attracted nearly 800 entries from the nation's primary and secondary school pupils.
