A new ferry in Australia will be christened Ferry McFerryface - in a nod to the rejected name Brits were desperate to have given to a scientific research vessel.
A British polar vessel was christened Sir David Attenborough after a nationwide call to have the boat called Boaty McBoatface was rejected by humourless officials.
Boaty McBoatface became the name of one of the remotely operated submarines on board the Sir David Attenborough.
Now Australians have shown a lighter side to the naming of their ships - by choosing to call a Sydney Harbor boat Ferry McFerryface.
"Given `Boaty' was already taken by another vessel, we've gone with the next most popular name nominated by Sydneysiders," New South Wales Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance said in a statement.
"Ferry McFerryface will be the harbor's newest icon and I hope it brings a smile to the faces of visitors and locals alike," he added.
Ferry McFerryface joins the ranks of Trainy McTrainface, a Swedish express train, and Horsey McHorseface, a Sydney racehorse, after a trend started by a suggestion from a former BBC radio host.
Sydney residents have been encouraged for the past year to name six boats in a new Sydney Harbor fleet through the Name Your Ferry website and more than 15,000 responded.
The other new ferries were named after prominent Sydney Aborigines Bungaree and Pemulwuy and Australian medical doctors Victor Chan, Catherine Hamlin and Fred Hollows.
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