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unusual facts about harbour



Acanthochitona thileniusi

The only specimens have been found in Tauranga Harbour in New Zealand.

Action of 30 May 1798

Vésuve had suffered less than the frigate and troops onshore were able to protect her from further attack until she could be brought into the nearby harbour of Sallenelles and repaired.

Alusuisse

In 1969 the company invested in a large aluminium smelter in the Gove Peninsula, Australia, through the joint venture Nabalco, The development which included the creation of a sea harbour, housing for 5000 people, and was worth over 1billion swiss francs.

Auckland Marathon

The course begins in the seaside suburb of Devonport on the North Shore and travels through Takapuna and Northcote before crossing the Harbour Bridge and heading toward the finish at Victoria Park.

Bean Brothers

In 1882 he set up a trial sugar plantation on Cox's Peninsula (later Cox Peninsula) across Darwin Harbour from Port Darwin, and organised the hire of 2,000 Singapore Chinese labourers to work the field at ₤1 per week.

Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve

The lowveld woodlands harbour purple-crested lourie, emerald cuckoo, red-backed mannikin, golden-tailed woodpecker, gorgeous bushshrike, white-faced owl and a number of raptors like white-backed vulture, gymnogene, black-chested snake eagle, Wahlberg's eagle and long-crested Eagle.

Bremerhaven Army Airfield

The US needed a support point with an harbour, to allow the unhindered support of US forces in the American Occupation Zone in Southern Germany.

Calcutta Light Horse

The Ehrenfels was known to be transmitting information on Allied ship movements to U-boats from Mormugao harbour in Portugal's neutral territory of Goa.

Canna, Scotland

A' Chill, situated to the north west of Canna Harbour was the main settlement until 1851 when the island was cleared.

Cardiff Harbour Authority

It took over responsibility from Cardiff Bay Development Corporation for the management of Cardiff Bay which includes the bay, Cardiff Bay Barrage, the outer harbour and the River Taff and Ely.

City of Coffs Harbour

A significant exception was that households in the Coffs Harbour local government area where Punjabi was spoken was three times the national average.

Constitution River

Additionally, it is a small sheltered shallow passage or yacht harbour for medium sized yachts or small craft boats to dock in the city.

Copenhagen Harbour Baths

In the event of unusually strong rains, sewage water may spill into the harbour and cause pollution with E. coli bacteria, closing the harbour baths temporarily.

Drummore

However, in July 2008 the Dumfries and Galloway Council decided to seek an Empowerment Order under the Harbours Act 1964 which would enable the Council to take over the harbour land and operations, following the pattern of a number of successful harbours along the Solway coast.

Eubranchus exiguus

This species was found in considerable abundance in Fowey Harbour on Laminaria saccharina.

Fort Delimara

Fort Delimara was a one of a ring of forts and batteries that protected Marsaxlokk harbour, along with Fort Tas-Silg at the shoreward end of Delimara point, Fort St Lucian on Kbira point in the middle of Marsaxlokk bay, Fort Benghisa on Benghisa Point, and the Pinto and Ferreti batteries on the shores of Marsaxlokk Bay.

Fox Harbour, Nova Scotia

Homes are primarily situated around the harbour with a focal point being the picturesque St. Andrew's United Church, part of the Three Harbours Pastoral Charge of the United Church of Canada.

Guy Cotten

In 1964, Cotten started to sell clothes for commercial fishing at the harbour of Concarneau, and decided to launch his own workshop in order to create lighter and more resistant oilskins.

Harbour Centre

The Vancouver Lookout tourist attraction, located atop the Harbour Centre business building, was officially opened on August 13, 1977 by Neil Armstrong, whose footprint was imprinted onto cement and was on display on the viewing/observation deck until it was lost (or stolen) during renovations.

Herman Ambrosius Jan Baanders

Major projects of the firm in the period up to the mid-1920s included the district of Heijplaat in the harbour of Rotterdam (1912-1921) — originally built as a garden city (tuindorp) to house the employees of the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij shipping company — and the Amsterdam secondary school Amsterdams Lyceum (1917-1922).

History of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

During the American Civil War, on August 18, 1864, the Confederate ship CSS Tallahassee under the command of John Taylor Wood sailed into Halifax harbour for supplies, coal and to make repairs to her mainmast.

History of Milford Haven

He spoke glowingly during a banquet held in his honour, commenting on the number of whaleships sent to the Southern Oceans, Milford's status as a primary seaport on the west coast of Britain, and culminated in comparing the harbour with that of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka as to be the two best he had ever seen.

HMS Fifi

Rosenthal took Kingani close to Kalemie, where work was underway to construct a harbour to base Mimi and Toutou, but had to keep clear of two 12 pounder guns that were being used as shore batteries.

Jonathan Boakes

One of his works, The Lost Crown, was based on the Polperro harbour which was renamed as Saxton in the game.

La Condamine

The yacht belonging to the Prince of Monaco is usually berthed in La Condamine's large harbour, the Port of Hercules.

Leith Harbour

In 1912 Leith Harbour was the site of the second introduction of Reindeer to South Georgia, an attempt that failed when the entire herd was killed by an avalanche in 1918.

Margam

The combination of local fuel and good transport links from the harbour made Margam an important part of the industrial landscape of the South Wales Coalfield.

Marmaris

Lord Nelson and his entire fleet sheltered in the harbour of Marmaris in 1798, en route to Egypt to defeat Napoleon's armada during the Mediterranean campaign.

Namibe

The construction of the mine installations and a 300 km railway were commissioned to Krupp of Germany and the modern harbour terminal to SETH, a Portuguese company owned by Højgaard & Schultz of Denmark.

North Harbour

North Harbour Rugby Union, the governing body for Rugby union in the North Harbour region of New Zealand

Old Portsmouth

Areas and buildings within Old Portsmouth include: Portsmouth Cathedral, Royal Garrison Church/Domus Dei, The John Pounds Memorial Church (Unitarian), the Square Tower and Round Tower and Point Barracks, Portsmouth Point and the entrance to the Harbour.

Panvel railway station

Panvel Junction is an important railway station on the Harbour Line and CST - Diva - Panvel - Somtane route of the Central Line.

Parkroyal

The hotels include PARKROYAL on Beach Road, Singapore, PARKROYAL on Kitchener Road, PARKROYAL Darling Harbour Sydney, PARKROYAL Parramatta Sydney, PARKROYAL Melbourne Airport Tullamarine, PARKROYAL Kuala Lumpur, PARKROYAL Penang, PARKROYAL Yangon and PARKROYAL Saigon.

Pilot boat

However, the work functions of the maritime pilot go back to Ancient Greece and Roman times, when locally experienced harbour captains, mainly local fishermen, were employed by incoming ships captains to safely bring into port their trading vessels.

Port Kembla, New South Wales

Patrick Corporation holds a contract for integrated port services in the harbour and transports goods by road or rail through its parent company Pacific National.

Port of Deauville

The large town's position on the estuary of the River Touques was ideal for the establishment of a constructed harbour to supplement the fishing docks of Trouville-sur-Mer.

Port of Hong Kong

The Marine Department’s VHF radio network provides comprehensive marine communication coverage throughout the harbour and its approaches.

Rye Harbour

At 6:45 am on the morning of 15 November 1928, the Mary Stanford from the Rye Harbour RNLI station responded needlessly to a Latvian steamer in distress.

Saint John harbour

Port of Saint John, the federal agency which administers the harbour infrastructure

Saunders Island, Falkland Islands

Unaware of the French presence at Port Louis, in January 1765, British captain John Byron explored and claimed Saunders Island, at the western end of the Falkland Islands, where he named the harbour of Port Egmont, and sailed near other islands, which he also claimed for King George III.

Shoreham Redoubt

Shoreham Redoubt (sometimes called Shoreham Fort) is a defensive structure at the entrance to Shoreham harbour, at the mouth of the River Adur in West Sussex, England.

Shottesbrooke

The Roman 'Camlet Way' between St Albans and Silchester would have crossed the parish at some point and the name 'Cold Harbour' indicates there was an inn or other stopping place nearby.

Somers Isles Company

A ninth subdivision, now the eastern-most parish, was Saint George's, comprising Saint George's Island, Saint David's Island, part of the Main Island, and various smaller islands and islets around Castle Harbour (then known as Southampton Harbour) and Saint George's Harbour.

Southern Co-operative

Head office was previously located at Fareham in Hampshire, but since July 2011, is now located at 1000 Lakeside, a business park in North Harbour, Portsmouth.

SS Midland City

She was then brought to Georgian Bay where the steamer ran a regular route from Midland to Parry Sound, stopping in Honey Harbour, Minnicog, Whalen's, Go-Home-Bay, Wah-Wah-Taysee, Manitou, Copperhead, Sans Souci, and Rose Point.

SS Picton

On Saturday, the Admiralty instructed the Furness Withy people to remove Picton from the harbour and beach her in the Eastern Passage.

Stanley Harbour

In December 1914, the harbour was the base for a British Squadron lying in wait for the German Far East Squadron led by Adm. Graf von Spee.

Toronto waterfront

The little harbour disappeared in the late 1870s with the arrival of the Grand Trunk Railway.

Wellington Cable Car

Initially both contracts were won by Harbour City Cable Car Ltd, a joint venture between the Stagecoach Group, which had purchased the buses, and East by West, a Wellington ferry operator.

Wood Wharf

In September 2012 Terry Farrell was appointed to replace Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in leading the development of the masterplanning.


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