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As one of the deepest natural harbours in the world, it is a busy shipping channel, trafficked by ferries from Pembroke Dock to Ireland, oil tankers and pleasure craft. Admiral Horatio Nelson , visiting the haven with the Hamiltons, described it as the next best natural harbour to Trincomalee in Ceylon (today's Sri Lanka) and "the finest port ...
Image credits: mamacrocker #6. Switzerland. Grindelwald, Lauterbrunnen, Interlaken area. I was there in Summertime. Winter looks beautiful too but snow is not my thing.
Cape Town, with its glorious sea vistas and flat-topped Table Mountain, has long been known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and now, with the new Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art ...
It has the highest annual rainfall of any harbor in the world. [3] It is also considered one of the best and deepest deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean or in Oceania as a whole. [4] [5] Pago Pago Bay is over 400 feet (120 m) deep and two miles (3.2 km) long. As part of the Pago Volcano caldera, the harbor is 50% landlocked. [6]
List of ports and harbours of the Atlantic Ocean. Ports of the Baltic Sea; Channel Ports – ports and harbours of the English Channel; List of North Sea ports – ports of the North Sea and its influent rivers; List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea; List of ports and harbors of the Arctic Ocean; List of ports and harbours of the ...
Portofino’s mystique is found in the way fishermen in wool caps still untangle their nets from the same harbor where moored yachts offer passage for hungry visitors seeking to taste the purity ...
Wadi al-Jarf (Arabic: وادي الجرف) is an area on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, 119 km (74 mi) south of Suez, that is the site of the oldest known artificial harbour in the world, developed about 4500 years ago.
Ports and harbours of the English Channel (12 C, 31 P) I. Ports and harbours of the Indian Ocean (19 C, 28 P) Ports and harbours of the Irish Sea (2 C, 9 P) M.