Aurora Australis

The Australian Antarctic Resupply Ship seen here berthing at the Nyrstar Zinc Works Wharf upstream from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. This was the first time she had been so far up the Derwent River, she came up to the Risdon Wharf to unload some heavy items of machinery that her own crane was no longer able to lift due do a major mechanical failure of her main cargo crane. Nyrstar fortuanatley have a multi purpose gantry crane at Risdon, Hobart was demolished in 2009.

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