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Australian cruising creeps back with the new Coral Geographer

Australian cruising creeps back with the new Coral Geographer

You won’t need a geography lesson to find your way around this compact, elegant ship by Coral Expeditions.

Coral Expeditions group general manager Mark Fifield, left, with the new Coral Geographer and its captain, Jacopo ‘JB’ Barchetti.  David Li

Brian JohnstonTravel writer

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When Coral Geographer sailed out of Cairns on its maiden voyage on March 31, it marked a notable but little heralded success for the Australian cruise industry.

For months, Coral Expeditions has stayed low-key with the media as it bedded down safe sailing in the age of a pandemic, says the company’s commercial director, Jeff Gillies.

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Brian JohnstonTravel writerBrian Johnston seemed destined to become a travel writer and author: he is an Irishman born in Nigeria and raised in Switzerland, who has lived in Britain and China.

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