Australian research icebreaker, replacing the decommissioned “Aurora Australis.” The significantly larger NUYIMA supplies the Australian Antarctic stations and serves polar, marine, climate, and weather research. Built at the Romanian Damen shipyard and completed at Damen in Vlissingen (NL). Homeport is Hobart/Tasmania. The first 47-day transfer voyage also went there. 25,500 t, 160.3 x 25.6 m, 16 kn, service speed 12 kn, can break ice up to 1.65 m thick at 3 kn. Crew: 32. The name of the ship comes from the language of the Tasmanian Aborigines. It means: 'southern light' or 'polar light'.