Passengers on the Carnival Luminosa were due to visit Lifou, New Caledonia, on Wednesday but instead awoke to confirmation they were already headed back towards Australia.
A cruise ship that left Brisbane on Sunday for a seven-day Pacific tour has turned back in an effort to avoid a developing cyclone.
If it forms in Australian waters, Bradbury said, the cyclone would be called Gabrielle, after another cyclone, named Freddy, formed off the Western Australian coast on Monday night.On Tuesday, the low was sitting about 1200 kilometres east of Mackay.
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