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Correct @bluemarble and appropriate as you were the identififier of the original Nagasaki post 164 on page 7. The photos were taken on QM2's port call on 25 March 2017.

Sorry, no it is not Bergen Norway.

Here's another "reverse view" of a port already on our seen list. I've previously posted a photo from this port of the Cunard ship, and here's the port from the ship. Apologies for the haze - it was a cold winter day (well, cold by Brisbane standards, anyway).

The hotels around Brooklyn Borough Hall are conveniently located. There's a Marriott, Sheraton, Hilton, and several smaller brands. Borough Hall has easy access to the Brooklyn Bridge (a great walk across to lower Manhattan), Brooklyn Heights (pleasant streets and waterfront), restaurants, and numerous transit connections (NYC subway 2/3, 4/5, A/C/F, N/R/W). It is a short taxi, Uber, or B61 bus to the QM2 Red Hook pier. Red Hook is steadily transforming, and has a lot more happening than before, but the only hotel near the pier is a Brooklyn Motor Inn. Best wishes for your voyage!

I think @Yaldiis correct. The bridge appears to be the Tromsøbrua, a cantilever bridge built in 1960. Tromso has been seen before in the game, although way back in August/September 2020. Nice to see it again, thanks @Lanky Lad. Mrs sfred and I will be fortunate to see the town first hand from QM2 in November.

The sail-in to Kotor is indeed spectacular isn't it? The colours of the mountains are beautiful. Here is a picture from QV at dawn. Kotor is around the upcoming bend to the right. My welcome as well to this "Where in the World" game! Might you have any new pictures of Cunard ports to share?

Correct all around! @pkster - that is indeed Kotor Montenegro. In the photo from the ship, about two thirds of the way up the mountain is Kotor Fortress. Back in August 2020, in post 163 page 7, I submitted a photo of QV from the Fortress, and @Host Hattie correctly identified Kotor. It was a great climb with stunning views, and we felt well justified in having dessert at dinner that evening. @bluemarble, you are correct that the other ship in port that day, occupying the berth and just out of view to the left in the photo from the Fortress, is the Fred Olsen Braemar. The photos were taken on 28 Sep 2016 on our trip from Civitavecchia to Venice.

Unfortunately I have long since ran out of new unseen port pictures, and it has been good fun investigating the new recent contributions. While we are waiting for more, here is an alternative view of a port already on our seen list. A while back, I contributed a picture of this Cunard ship from this port. Here is a reverse photo from the ship back to this location. We were at anchor and tendering due to the other ship occupying the berth.

Thanks - wow, we're now at 21 "seen" ports for Alaska, accounting for 38% of all US locations, and more than three times as many as the next highest state, which is Florida at only 6.

Is this Haines, Alaska? I think some ships diverted there because of the rockslide at Skagway, and perhaps QE did also.

Ah, I think you are correct @bluemarble. In google maps, I found a photo (actually a 6-second video) of the Fossdalsfoss, on the westerm shore of the fjord, that is a match. My earlier searches of all the unseen cruise-bys were just in google images. The images for Eyjafjordur didn't have this view, at least not in the first several pages of images displayed before I gave up and moved on to the next location. You are up early this morning your time (or I hope it hasn't been an all-nighter?).

I've gone through all the cruise-by locations on the unseen list, but unfortunaely cannot find a match. Or perhaps my tired eyes missed somewhere.

An extract to Excel and a side-by side comparison quickly identified my missing port - Zanzibar, Tanzania. I didn't even have to go through the entire list before getting to "Z". I looked at the bottom to verify that I had one less row than your list, and immediately saw the missing Zanzibar. My port count now is also 581.

This was definitely challenging me also. There's lots of good clues in @ExArkie's photo, but the resolution wasn't enough for me to ID the ferry, the stern flag of the fire/tugboat spraying the blue water, or any of the harbourside buildings. With @bluemarble's solution, I can see now that there's definitely a match to the Seikan ferry, which runs from Hakodate to Aomori. But when I went to add Hakodate to my list of "seen" ports it was already there. Doing a search back through Where in the World, we saw Hakodate and the ferry in @ExArkie's post 3633 on 26 July 2021.

I think this might be the webcam? https://webcam-vlaardingen.nl/pages/cameras/oost.php

I think @Colin_Cameronmay be right. There are several matches to Rotterdam. The rounded roof building at the left does look like the Mammoet Schiedam. The webcam might be at or nearby to the Grand Café Nautique. This location is about the correct distance from the Mammoet, and looking east there are cargo ships at the piers at the left, and a matching red cargo crane. The various streetview images also show the buildings on the horizon in the webcam photo. If this is correct, a question remains of why the Cunard ship (I still can't tell whether QV or QE) is therefore departing at sunrise. Perhaps an overnight stay, or a delay? Also if correct, my congratulations to @Colin_Cameron!! That is an amazing recognotion of a webcam photo with very few clues.

I think this will be a challenge! I'm not even sure how to start. I can't make out whether the ship is QE or QV, whether the sun is a rise or set, the colours of the cranes or tugs, any sign wording, or building shapes other than the outlines on the horison. Perhaps inspiration will strike later today to detect some other clues.

Thanks very much @Palmeat. Appreciate your thoughts on the voyage. I didn't know that you could apply the Diamond free Verandah lunch benefit to a discounted dinner. Do you know if that was unique to your voyage, or a general change in benefits? Also, did your Diamond benefit renew at some port in your voyage to get the two Verandah dinners, and did that apply for your $135 internet benefit also ($135 * 2 segments)?

And have a Marks&Spencer! 🙂 I've changed Corfu to Former Empire.

Thanks @bluemarble for your reply. I just saw @exlondoner. 's post as my day is starting this morning. As indicated, the intention was to see what proportion of "seen" Cunard ports and cruise-bys are in countries that were part of the former British empire. I concur with @exlondoner's suggestion to include the wording "former" in the pie chart, and have done so. The text analytics model uses a Wikipedia list of former "Empire" countries, and consists of the following. If I've missed any, or included any that I shouldn't, please let me know.: UK, Ireland, Gibralter, Minorca, Malta, Cyprus, Canada, Bermuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos Islands, Anguilla, St Kitts, Jamaica, Montserrat, Grenada, Antigua, Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, British Guiana, Belize, Pitcairn Island, Falkland Islands, Tristan de Cunha, St Helena, Ascension Island, Israel, Jordan,, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Aden, Sudan, Gambia, Sierre Leone, Nigeria, South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Dijoubti, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Mauritius, Hong Kong, Brunei, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Tonga, British Overseas Territories, Samoa For the US, in the first versions of the the model I included all of the US. I knew this was wrong, and eventually got around to adding a US State field to the model. The count of US ports in the Former Empire includes WA, OR, GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, NH and ME. It excludes AK, HI, CA, TX, LA, AL, and FL because these states joined the US from origins other than the Empire. However, examining the model to confirm the details for this post, I discovered that the formula linkage to the list of US states had broken when I brought the model out of archive when we restarted this thread. The model was incorrectly counting all of the US again. I've fixed that bug, added the "Former" wording to the chart, and updated the list of ports to include @babs135 photo of Kingston Jamaica as port 579 (and a "Former Empire" port). A corrected pie chart is below.

I usually post these graphs when we reach a nice round number of "seen" ports/cruise-by's, but we recently sped past 575, and 600 seems a ways off. So here are the outputs from the analytics dataset I keep on the ports list. If anyone has any questions or requests for additional graphs, let me know.

Thanks @D&N. Bass Rock, Scotland UK. I'm afraid I don't know the ship. This is port/cruise-by number 578.

This is a guess... The one time Mrs sfred and I departed Hamburg on QM2 was way back in June 2015 (on the 175th anniversary westbound crossing). From memory it was dark by the time we passed Cuxhaven. So if the newer Cuxhaven webcam photo shows QM2 in the daylight, that implies she left Hamburg either late the night before and passed Cuxhaven in the morning of the following day, or departed Hamburg much earlier in the day in order to pass Cuxhaven before dark. From the position of the light in the webcam photo, I'll guess she departed Hamburg late at night. A recent time QM2 departed late at night was the Blue Festival on 20 August. If she passed Cuxhaven the following morning, that would be 21 August. (I might have these dates wrong - my CruiseCritic feed shows dates and times for Australia, which can be different from local dates in Germany).

Very nice webcam photo of QM2, @bluemarble. The webcam is on the Steubenhöft pier in Cuxhaven, Germany. downriver from Hamburg on the Elbe. The wording you blanked out is elb-link.de (or at least it was in the August 2019 google streetview). Parts of the original wording are still visible under the new placard, which I assume was Scandinavian Seaways. A search for "Scandinavian Seaways ferry pier" got me the start I needed to find this webcam.

Unless there are any alternative rulings, I'll count port/cruise-by number 577 as Kongsfjorden, Norway.