37 nightsFrom Sydney, Australia19 ports of call
37-Day World Cruise: Australia Circumnavigation
Seabourn · Seabourn Quest
Overview
A 37-night voyage aboard Seabourn Quest, departing Sydney, Australia on 9 Mar 2027 and arriving in Brisbane, calling at 19 destinations along the way.
Sydney, AustraliaHobartBurnie, TasmaniaMelbourneAdelaidePenneshaw, Kangaroo IslandPort LincolnAlbany, AustraliaBusseltonFremantleGeraldton, Western AustraliaExmouth, AustraliaBroome, AustraliaDarwin, AustraliaAlotau, Papua New GuineaCairnsTownsville, AustraliaAirlie BeachBrisbane
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Itinerary
37 nights · 38 ports of call- 1
Day 1 ·Sydney, AustraliaEmbark
9 Mar 2027Sydney is a cosmopolitan, multicultural city surrounded by golden sand beaches, World Heritage areas, lush national parks and acclaimed wine regions. Sydney owes much of its splendor to its magnificent harbor. Arriving by ship provides an unequaled impression, showing off the city's famous landmarks: the dramatic white sails of the iconic Opera House and the celebrated Harbor Bridge, looming over the skyline. - 2
Day 2 ·Sydney, Australia
10 Mar 2027Depart 16:00Sydney is a cosmopolitan, multicultural city surrounded by golden sand beaches, World Heritage areas, lush national parks and acclaimed wine regions. Sydney owes much of its splendor to its magnificent harbor. Arriving by ship provides an unequaled impression, showing off the city's famous landmarks: the dramatic white sails of the iconic Opera House and the celebrated Harbor Bridge, looming over the skyline. - 3
Day 3 ·At Sea
11 Mar 2027 - 5
Day 5 ·Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
12 Mar 2027Arrive 13:00The city’s candid, friendly character today belies its history as a penal colony. It also enjoyed a heyday as a whaling center in the 1830s. Today the wharfside warehouses of Salamanca Place are filled with shops and restaurants, and the settlers’ cottages in battery park are lovingly restored by proud owners. Tasmania maintains a lot of agricultural heritage, and enjoys a slightly sedate pace of life. See the dazzling new Museum of Old and New Art, which opened in January of 2011. - 5
Day 5 ·Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
13 Mar 2027Depart 23:00The city’s candid, friendly character today belies its history as a penal colony. It also enjoyed a heyday as a whaling center in the 1830s. Today the wharfside warehouses of Salamanca Place are filled with shops and restaurants, and the settlers’ cottages in battery park are lovingly restored by proud owners. Tasmania maintains a lot of agricultural heritage, and enjoys a slightly sedate pace of life. See the dazzling new Museum of Old and New Art, which opened in January of 2011. - 6
Day 6 ·At Sea
14 Mar 2027 - 7
Day 7 ·Burnie, Australia
15 Mar 2027Arrive 09:00Depart 17:00Burnie overlooks Emu Bay, on the north-west coast of Tasmania. This proudly industrial city is Australia's fifth largest container port and a vibrant place to visit. Originally settled in 1827 as Emu Bay, the town was renamed for William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company in the early 1840s. Burnie was once surrounded by dense rainforest, but this slowly disappeared as fortunes were made felling and milling timber. Burnie offers plenty of activities and sites. - 8
Day 8 ·Melbourne, Australia
16 Mar 2027Arrive 10:00Depart 21:00Located at the mouth of the Yarra River, Melbourne was founded by free settlers in 1835, 47 years after the first European settlement in Australia. Transformed rapidly into a major metropolis by the Victorian gold rush in the 1850s, Melbourne became Australia's largest and most important city, and by 1865 was the second largest city in the British Empire. Today, Melbourne is a major center of commerce, industry and cultural activity, and is consistently ranked as one of the most livable cities in the world. - 9
Day 9 ·At Sea
17 Mar 2027 - 10
Day 10 ·Adelaide, Australia
18 Mar 2027Arrive 10:00Depart 22:00Southern Australia's most graceful city lies nestled along the coastal plain between the Gulf St. Vincent and the Adelaide Hills. Unlike its eastern Australian city counterparts, convicts did not colonize Adelaide. Europeans, most of whom were British, first settled Adelaide in 1826. Other settlers to the region included German, Polish, Afghan, Chinese, Italian, Lebanese, Spanish and Scandinavians. The city was designed from the very beginning with wide streets and numerous town squares, marvelous Victorian and Edwardian architecture, parks and wide-open spaces. The city preserved many of its unique stone houses built by the original settlers, as well as the more grand historic public buildings constructed during the Gold Rush years. - 11
Day 11 ·Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island
19 Mar 2027Arrive 08:00Depart 18:00Australia’s third-largest sea island, after Tasmania and Melville Island, is a haven for wildlife and a popular escape for nature-loving mainlanders from Adelaide and Melbourne. Seabourn Sojourn’s call will occur during the annual birthing season of the New Zealand sea lion and Australian fur seal colonies on the nearby beach conservation areas. Marine tours seek the playful porpoises and dolphins offshore, while land-based excursions visit preserves for koalas and wallabies, as well as the popular local wineries. - 12
Day 12 ·Wallaroo
20 Mar 2027Arrive 08:00Depart 18:00 - 13
Day 13 ·Port Lincoln
21 Mar 2027Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00A well-protected harbor in Boston Bay on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, Port Lincoln is an important port for grain shipment, fishing for bluefin tuna and multi-species aquaculture. It is also proud to call itself Australia’s Seafood Capital. First charted in 1802, it was not truly established until a government subsidized settlement in the 1840s. There are a number of mill and settler’s cottages preserved today, and the eccentric Koppio Smithy Museum holds a centuries-spanning collection of everything from pioneer implements, barbed wire displays and carriages to vintage cars and bicycles. Another specialty museum with a particular focus on Port Lincoln is the Axel Stenross Maritime Museum highlighting the fishing and maritime history with displays and old wooden boats, including some built at the Stenross shipyard. Other attractions of the area range from natural features such as the Whaler’s Way limestone coast, and the Glen Forest Animal Park to snorkeling with sea lions or cage diving with great white sharks. The town also boasts a railway museum and a prominent statue of the graceful thoroughbred Makybe Diva, owned by a local tuna fisherman and the only horse to win the coveted Melbourne Cup three times. - 14
Day 14 ·At Sea
22 Mar 2027 - 15
Day 15 ·At Sea
23 Mar 2027 - 16
Day 16 ·Albany, Australia
24 Mar 2027Arrive 07:00Depart 15:00Located at the southern tip of Western Australia, Albany was the first colonial settlement in the west, founded in 1826, when Major Edmund Lockyer claimed the western third of the continent for the British Crown. It was the only deep water port on the continent’s western third until the founding of Fremantle and was crucial to the gold rush era. Several decades later, it was also the last port from which Australian troops left to join World War I, and thus integral to the ANZAC legend. Architectural heritage in Albany includes the Old Farm, Strawberry Hill, which as founded in 1827 to feed the troops, and was later a gentleman’s residence. The picturesque St. John’s Church, Town Hall and the fanciful Old Post Office each represent different traditions which thrived here. The Princess Royal Sound area is rich with natural wonders preserved in national parks. Torndirrup National Park is a granite prominence assaulted by the swells of the Southern Sea, resulting in phenomena such as the blowholes and the picturesque granite Natural Bridge. - 17
Day 17 ·Busselton, Australia
25 Mar 2027Arrive 11:00Depart 22:00 - 18
Day 18 ·Fremantle (Perth), Australia
26 Mar 2027Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00Historic Fremantle is the gateway port for Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Located 12 miles upriver from Fremantle on the banks of the Swan River, Perth was founded on June12, 1829 by Captain James Stirling, the political center of the free settler Swan River Colony. Perth is considered one of the most isolated metropolitan areas on Earth, with Adelaide in South Australia, the closest city with a population over one million. Perth is geographically closer to East Timor, Singapore and Jakarta than it is to Sydney or Melbourne. Today, Perth is a lively cosmopolitan city, and the Swan Valley Region is home to more that 40 vineyards, many of which are still run by their original families. Perth became known worldwide as the "City of Lights" when city residents lit their house and street lights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the earth on Friendship 7 in 1962. - 19
Day 19 ·Geraldton, Australia
27 Mar 2027Arrive 10:00Depart 20:00Geraldton is the center of Western Australia’s Coral Coast, and a gateway to the agricultural Chapman Valley. City attractions include the Western Australia Museum and a stirring monument to the HMAS Sydney II, which was sunk with great loss of life off the coast here during WW II. See the red and white-striped Point Moore Lighthouse, and the lovingly preserved keeper’s cottage. Drive into the Moresby Ranges to visit a lavender farm, or visit the restored Oakabella homestead to see how the early settlers lived. - 20
Day 20 ·At Sea
28 Mar 2027 - 21
Day 21 ·Exmouth, Australia
29 Mar 2027Arrive 07:00Depart 16:00Just off shore is the Ningaloo Reef, the largest fringing reef in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to an amazing variety of marine life throughout the year. The Cape Range National Park shows off land-based wildlife including emus and wallabies. Visit the rugged gorges of the Yardie Creek Station, or watch for nesting sea turtles on the nearby beaches. The Vlamingh Head Lighthouse is just over 100 years old. - 22
Day 22 ·At Sea
30 Mar 2027 - 23
Day 23 ·Broome, Australia
31 Mar 2027Arrive 08:00Depart 17:00Isolated on the farthest northwest corner of the continent, Broome thrived from its founding in 1883 based on the bounty of South Sea pearls found in offshore oyster beds. Even today, the pearling industry is active here, though most are now cultured. But Broome has grown into one of Australia’s premier holiday destinations, offering an amazing variety of attractions and activities for visitors. It boasts a splendid, 14-mile strand of soft white sand at Cable Beach, where people flock to enjoy sunset camel rides. And with 2,600 islands in the area and warm seas, it is a sportsman’s paradise. But the unique allure of the region is the unspoiled expanse of bizarre geological formations, waterways and ancient Aboriginal lands called the Kimberley. Corrugated with red-hued cliffs and escarpments, and laced with pristine waterways, swimming holes and waterfalls, the Kimberley is unlike any other landscape on earth. It invites visitors to cruise the coast, fly over the ranges, kayak the islands and explore the rugged terrain in 4WD vehicles. The only difficulty is deciding which adventure to partake of next. - 24
Day 24 ·Scenic cruising Kimberley Coast
1 Apr 2027Arrive 11:00Depart 19:00 - 25
Day 25 ·At Sea
2 Apr 2027 - 26
Day 26 ·Darwin, Australia
3 Apr 2027Arrive 07:00Despite its small size, Darwin is a modern, multi-cultural city, and its proximity to Asia makes it ideal for travel. Named after the famous scientist, Charles Darwin, the area was originally settled by the Larrakia Aboriginals. The Dutch arrived and mapped the land in the 1600s, followed by the British in 1939, when the town was given its English name. Darwin has a beautiful coastline, as well as numerous parks and gardens, making the city a top spot for outdoor activities. - 27
Day 27 ·Darwin, Australia
4 Apr 2027Depart 16:00Despite its small size, Darwin is a modern, multi-cultural city, and its proximity to Asia makes it ideal for travel. Named after the famous scientist, Charles Darwin, the area was originally settled by the Larrakia Aboriginals. The Dutch arrived and mapped the land in the 1600s, followed by the British in 1939, when the town was given its English name. Darwin has a beautiful coastline, as well as numerous parks and gardens, making the city a top spot for outdoor activities. - 28
Day 28 ·At Sea
5 Apr 2027 - 29
Day 29 ·At Sea
6 Apr 2027 - 30
Day 30 ·At Sea
7 Apr 2027 - 32
Day 32 ·Alotau
8 Apr 2027Arrive 12:00Depart 20:00Alotau, Papua New Guinea. Alotau is the capital of the Milne Bay province of Papua New Guinea, located on a peninsula in Milne Bay in the Coral Sea. The town and water comprise the site of the 1942 battle of Milne Bay, in which the invading Japanese army suffered its first decisive defeat in the Pacific Theater of World War II at the hands of Allied, mostly Australian forces. A War Memorial commemorates the battle. Today the area is largely given over the palm oil plantations. The local people keep their Tawala cultural traditions alive, with the exception of the long-past ritual cannibalism. In Bibiko Village, they will be pleased to show them off in displays of prowess with Kundu drum ceremonies and exhibitions of their impressive war canoes. At the Ahioma village of Dodobana, the many specialized skills of daily Melanesian life are demonstrated in a family-style setting, such as basket weaving, grass skirt making and gardening. - 32
Day 32 ·At Sea
9 Apr 2027 - 34
Day 34 ·Cairns, Australia
10 Apr 2027Arrive 12:00A cosmopolitan city flanked by pristine rainforests and golden beaches, Cairns is the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, Kuranda, and the Daintree rainforest, a World Heritage protected area. The city was recently renovated to enhance its image and provide a relaxing place for visitors and locals to congregate and have fun. Cairns Esplanade, once a huge grassy park, now features an excellent facility incorporating an outdoor amphitheatre, a sandy swimming lagoon, walking tracks, shops and restaurants, and an environmental interpretation center. - 34
Day 34 ·Cairns, Australia
11 Apr 2027Depart 18:00A cosmopolitan city flanked by pristine rainforests and golden beaches, Cairns is the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, Kuranda, and the Daintree rainforest, a World Heritage protected area. The city was recently renovated to enhance its image and provide a relaxing place for visitors and locals to congregate and have fun. Cairns Esplanade, once a huge grassy park, now features an excellent facility incorporating an outdoor amphitheatre, a sandy swimming lagoon, walking tracks, shops and restaurants, and an environmental interpretation center. - 35
Day 35 ·Townsville, Australia
12 Apr 2027Arrive 08:00Depart 18:00The unofficial capital of North Queensland, Townsville is tucked inside the Great Barrier Reef in the northern tropics. Its municipal beach, The Strand, is consistently rated among Australia’s cleanest. Take a ferry to Magnetic Island, an unspoiled UNESCO World Heritage Site just offshore, or visit the Billabong Sanctuary wildlife reserve. - 36
Day 36 ·Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia
13 Apr 2027Arrive 07:00Depart 16:00The 74 Whitsunday Islands are Australia’s tropical marine playground, scattered along the Queensland coast inshore from the Great Barrier Reef. Airlie Beach is the resort hub for exploration of the islands, the reef and the tropical forests of the region. Activities abound, from snorkeling on the reef, spectacular flight tours, fishing excursions to treks along the coastal cliffs with breathtaking views. Whitehaven Beach, a picturesque five-mile strand of pure white silica sand, is among the world’s most beautiful and famous beaches, its swirling offshore sandbars shining through the clear, aquamarine waters. Airlie Beach is a town dedicated to leisure and relaxation, with abundant boutiques, restaurants and cafes offering alfresco dining. It is a place in which to enjoy Australia’s tropical pleasures in the same casual, fun-loving style the Aussies employ. - 37
Day 37 ·At Sea
14 Apr 2027 - 38
Day 38 ·Brisbane, AustraliaDisembark
15 Apr 2027Arrive 08:00Once a harsh penal settlement, Brisbane is now Queensland's dynamic capital city. A blend of steel and glass defines the skyline, while riverside delights - botanical gardens, promenades, cafes and markets - mesmerize at eye level. Sample shore excursions: Brisbane Sights & Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary.
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