Australian frigate HMAS Warramunga will berth at Dunedin on Friday for a five-day training visit.

The Perth-based vessel has been operating in New Zealand waters for the past two weeks, conducting advanced navigation training with HMAS Newcastle.

In Dunedin her crew will undertake guard training, during which blanks will be fired.

Warramunga, which was last at Dunedin in October 2003, will be the first Australian warship to visit the city since the arrival of HMAS Manoora in September 2008.

Members of the public will not be able to boardWarramunga while she is berthed at the T and U wharf, Fryatt St.

The frigate will return to its home port from Dunedin.

Warramunga, with a displacement of 3600 tonnes, was commissioned in March 2001.

She is 118m long, 14.8m wide and is armed with eight missiles, four machine guns, two torpedo tubes, a vertical launch system and an automatic fire gun.