South Pacific Cruise Ports

The South Pacific holds 240 cruise ports, 15% of the 1,572 we track. 14 of them are departure ports. The most visited cruise port in the South Pacific region is also its busiest departure port: Sydney, Australia, appearing in 2,106 upcoming itineraries.

Ports here are grouped into 2 sub-regions: Australia is the largest with 121 ports, South Pacific the smallest with 119. Its ports span 19 countries, most of them in Australia, Indonesia and New Zealand.

The South Pacific covers two quite different patterns. Australia and New Zealand cruise on the southern summer from October to April, homeported in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Auckland, with ships repositioning from Asia or Alaska at either end of the season. French Polynesia runs year round out of Papeete on smaller ships. Across Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia most calls are tender ports rather than berths, so they are more exposed to weather than the Australian mainland stops.