Along with our sister company, P&O Cruises in the United Kingdom, P&O Cruises Australia originates from the passenger division of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, a UK shipping company which operated the world's first passenger ships in the early 19th Century. P&O subsequently became the first company to operate passenger routes to Australia, with the first of these voyages occurring in 1932. As such we are one of the oldest cruise lines in the world.
These voyages eventually developed into the cruise holidays we recognise today and so P&O adopted the brand name P&O Cruises, with the specialist Australian service becoming known as P&O Cruises Australia.
P&O Cruises Australia's first permanent ship was the Fairstar, followed by Pacific Sky, Pacific Star and Pacific Sun.
Today P&O Cruises Australia is the South Pacific's largest cruise operator sailing to more than 80 ports across Australia and New Zealand, throughout the remote Pacific Islands and to the far reaches of South East Asia. We cruise from Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Cairns, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore.
The P&O Cruises Australia fleet consists of Pacific Jewel, Pacific Dawn, Pacific Aria, Pacific Eden and our latest ship Pacific Explorer.