’S NEW ANTARCTIC

RSV Nuyina can: • break 1.65 m thick ice at a RSV Crow’s nest, communications Nuyinaand meteorological instruments continuous speed of 3 knots

• cruise efficiently at 12 knots, Accommodation and mess with a maximum speed of 16 knots Observation Medical facility Air sampling mast bridge/deck Navigation Containerised labs • handle sea state 9 (waves over 14 m) bridge and instruments • handle Beaufort 12 winds (hurricane) Dynamic positioning system Dry cargo holds Helicopter hangar • cope with air temperatures as low as maintains ship’s position in Science working decks -30°C and up to 45°C sea state 4 (moderate seas) Instrument • support voyages of up to 90 days deployment boom

Meteorological instruments

Dynamic positioning system ‘Silent R’ acoustic rating maintains ship’s position ±20 m in sea state 4 (moderate seas) at 8 knots minimises noise Moon pool radiating from the ship Wet well Cargo fuel Fisheries Deep multi-beam Science spaces Drop keels and Engine rooms Electrical propulsion Science winch room echo-sounder and acoustic instruments Food storage sub-bottom profiler Air sampling mast Heavy Lifting: 2 x 55t cranes on bow 1 x 15t aft crane Laboratories and atmospheric • 1 200 tonne (t) capacity below decks in up to 96 instruments housed in containers 20-foot shipping containers • 60 20-foot containers above deck for cargo and labs • Cranes: 2 x 55t on bow; 1 x 15t side loader; 1 x 15t aft; and smaller cranes on science work deck

Helicopters • Helicopters: 4 small (B3s) or 2 medium (S92s) • Tenders: 3 ship + 1 science • Barges: 2 x 45t capacity 1 x 15t side-loading crane below helideck Scientific winches and A-frame to launch and recover sediment corers and trawl equipment

Retractable boom for instruments to measure snow and ice thickness Cargo hold doubles as an equipment space and staging area for sea ice research

Multi-beam echosounder to map Science tender 25 km-wide swaths of seafloor up to 11 000 m deep Personnel transfer tender Wet well to process seawater containing krill Two drop keels with acoustic instruments to map and visualise Stern tender the sea floor and organisms in the water column

Two diesel engines (19,200 kW total) for icebreaking and two electric motors (7400 kW total) powered by diesel generators for silent operations Moon pool to deploy autonomous vehicles and oceanographic equipment 2 controllable pitch propellers; 3 bow .gov.au/icebreaker and 3 stern thrusters for manoeuvring Australia’s new Antarctic icebreaker, RSV Nuyina will be the main lifeline to Australia’s three Antarctic research stations, Casey, Davis and Mawson and its sub-Antarctic research station on Macquarie Island.

Nuyina is a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning ‘southern lights’. It is pronounced ‘noy yee nah’.

The southern lights, also known as aurora australis, is an atmospheric phenomenon which forms over Antarctica and reaches northwards to light up Australian – and particularly Tasmanian – skies.

The ship was named by Australian school children in a Nuyina competition in 2017.

The Nuyina, is really three ships in one – an icebreaker, a floating scientific research platform, and a resupply ship.

length 160.3 m RSV

96 containers 1200 t cargo 117 expeditioners + 32 crew + 32 117 expeditioners

1.9 million litres fuel (including 0.5 million litres aviation)

5030 m3 cargo hold space