The name of the ship Tûranor PlanetSolar,taken from JRR Tolkien's novel Lord of the Rings, which means 'power the Sun'.
As quoted from the site dailymail, the ship started its mission of Monaco since 27 September 2010 was entirely relying on solar power.
This ship has a body length of up to 31 meters,and can carry up to 40 passengers. While the panel suryanya stretching to more than 500 m square. The panel should move the two electric motors.
The shape is purposely designed to have two 'legs', to meet the aspects of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, so that ships could sail with kkecepatan up as fast as 14 knots,or about 26 miles per hour.
The ship already had visited various places such as Miami, Cancun, during a conference on world climate, as well as the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Now, he was in Australia.
When the mission a success, the ship was built at a cost of U.S. $ 12.5 million, approximately USD 107 billion, will become the first successful cruise ship to circumnavigate the globe, relying on pure solar power.