HMAS Adelaide completes recovery efforts in Tonga
Channel: Royal Australian Navy
Date: 02/03/2022

Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Adelaide has been relieved by HMAS Canberra on her humanitarian assistance and disaster relief mission supporting the Government of Tonga.

HMAS Adelaide arrived in Tonga on Australia Day and the task group immediately began working with Tonga and New Zealand, providing over 88 tonnes of relief and emergency supplies following the eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai underwater volcano on 15 January 2022 and subsequent tsunami.

HMAS Canberra's first task is to help establish a distribution centre for supplies in the Ha'api island group and will also embark Pacific forces from the Republic of Fiji Military Forces and French Armed Forces from New Caledonia to continue clean-up operations.