Radical sail-powered £90m super yacht that would tour newly-melted arctic channels

An extraordinary £90million Arctic super yacht has been designed to perfectly blend in with its frozen landscape – by looking like an iceberg.

The bizarre 230ft (70m) ‘Fata Morgana’ has a bow that resembles a rock formation, and a stern that mimics a giant ice structure.

The vessel even boasts an observatory so passengers can enjoy the views of the undisturbed Arctic sky.

It will be used, according to its designer who envisaged it to raise awareness of climate change, to navigate and investigate the newly melted waters in the Arctic Circle.

An extraordinary £90 million Arctic super yacht has been designed to perfectly blend in with its frozen landscape – by looking like an iceberg

The bizarre 70 metre ‘Fata Morgana’ has a bow that resembles a rock formation, and a stern that mimics a giant ice structure

The Fata Morgana can host 12 guests and 18 crew members and comes complete with an outdoor swimming pool and helipad.

Nice-based yacht designer George Lucian says advanced stabilisers will be fitted so that the view from the ship’s observatory will remain still, regardless of the movement of ship.

The ship’s innovative shapes take inspiration from military ships and stealth planes, and all equipment on the yacht will be adapted to navigate the Arctic conditions.

It will be chartered in the newly melted Northwest passage of the arctic, which was previously harder for ships to navigate due to large but now-melting ice caps.

The vessel even boasts an observatory so passengers can enjoy the views of the undisturbed Arctic sky

The Fata Morgana can host 12 guests and 18 crew members -including security staff, a helicopter pilot and scuba instructor – and comes complete with an outdoor swimming pool and helipad

In addition, a gigantic kite is attached to the front to help propel the vessel and save fuel.

Mr Lucian, 31, says the yacht will offer support to the those tackling climate change, both practically and symbolically.

Devices will transmit the temperature of the water to relevant international organisations, whilst its design will ‘remind people of the climate change issue, and the melting of the real icebergs and ice caps.’

The yacht is designed for long distance voyages and even features a VIP suite with a glass surround, meaning unobstructed panoramic views

He added: ‘I wanted to design a yacht which would almost camouflage itself in the Arctic environment, Furthermore, an iceberg lookalike yacht, when seen, would remind the people of the climate change issue, and melting of the real icebergs and ice caps.

‘The idea is to remind people in a very discreet and elegant way.

‘You can’t be that obvious about it, and there’s not many ways you can express this through yacht design.

‘Nevertheless, the image of an iceberg might remind people of what’s going on.’

 Devices on the yacht will transmit the temperature of the water to relevant international organisations while it travels

An interior view from the arctic super yacht, showing the panoramic views of the landscape