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Queen Elizabeth to set new record for deployment Down Under

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Queen Elizabeth’s 2024/25 deployment in Australasia will set a new record by 10 days
As reported here, Cunard’s newly released 2024/2025 voyages include Queen Elizabeth’s return to Australasia where she will spend a record 131-day deployment.

The 2,081-passenger ship chalked up 121 days during her deployment Down Under from November 2022 to March this year when she also made her inaugural circumnavigation of Australia.

Second circumnavigation

She departs San Francisco on September 22, 2024 and arrives in Melbourne on October 16 via Hawaii, Samoa and New Zealand.

As well as cruising in Australian and New Zealand waters and the South Pacific, she will undertake her second circumnavigation of Australia, departing Sydney on October 18, 2024 and returning November 17.  

The 30-night voyage includes the classic Kimberley sailing between Broome and Darwin. 

On February 11, 2025, she will depart Sydney on a 14-night voyage to Singapore en route to Japan.