Albany WA Western Australia
Australia
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Cruises availables
At departure or passage at this port
Azamara Club Cruises (7 Cruises)
Carnival Cruise Line (1 Cruises)
Crystal Cruises (11 Cruises)
Holland America Line (3 Cruises)
Norwegian Cruise Line (2 Cruises)
Oceania Cruises (10 Cruises)
Princess Cruises (31 Cruises)
Crown Princess
7 Cruises
Grand Princess
24 Cruises
| 28 February | 32 days | One-way from Brisbane to Sydney |
| 28 February | 31 days | One-way from Brisbane to Sydney |
Seabourn Cruise Line (12 Cruises)
Seabourn Quest
12 Cruises
Frequently Asked Questions
In the deep water port of Princess Royal Harbour, about two kilometres from the town centre. Shuttles generally run to York Street.
The centre, yes : York Street climbs gently from the water, lined with 19th century buildings and cafes, and is easy to walk. Torndirrup National Park and Frenchman Bay, however, require a vehicle.
A museum on the slopes of Mount Clarence tracing one by one the fates of the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who sailed from Albany in November 1914. Each visitor is given a soldier's identity and follows him from embarkation to the front.
Because the convoys carrying the first soldiers to the Great War gathered in its sound before weighing anchor. For thousands of men, Albany was the last sight of their country.
Yes. Founded in 1826, Albany predates Perth by more than two years : Western Australia began here. The town has kept a centre of colonial facades from that period.
A full size replica of the vessel that brought the first settlers in 1826, set beside the regional museum. You can walk it from hold to forecastle : children play at being sailors, adults take the measure of how cramped such a crossing was.
Two granite formations in Torndirrup National Park, carved by the Southern Ocean. A steel walkway juts out above The Gap, a chasm where the swell rushes in and explodes some forty metres below; alongside, the Natural Bridge spans the surge.
The former station that hunted whales until 1978, the last of its kind in Australia, twenty-five minutes' drive away. Now a museum, it tells the story without dressing it up : oil tanks turned into screening rooms, a blue whale skeleton and the chaser ship Cheynes IV preserved ashore.
June through October. Southern right whales and humpbacks pause in the nearby bays, sometimes a few hundred metres from shore. Watch from Middleton Beach or from the high ground above town.
Yes, Middleton Beach, whose boardwalk follows a cove suited to summer swimming. It is also a good vantage point for whale watching during the austral winter.
