sfred Posted November 1, 2020 #1476 Share Posted November 1, 2020 There's a port in Chile that would have been great for our Q challenge if Cunard had ever called there. I saw it on google maps in my unsuccessful search for carlmm's Hilo Hawaii photo. Iquique, Chile Two q's in one name, and q is the only consonant in the name, all the other letters being vowels. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 1, 2020 #1477 Share Posted November 1, 2020 That completes all the 'q' ports that I am aware of. Here's the list, pending anyone coming up with any more ports to add of course. 1. Quebec City, Quebec 2. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3. Whitsunday Islands/Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia 4. Cairns, Queensland, Australia 5. Coquimbo, Chile 6. Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala 7. Yorkeys Knob, Queensland, Australia 8. Fort-de-France, Martinique 9. Aqaba, Jordan 10. Sarande, Shqipëri (Albania) 11. Gladstone, Queensland, Australia 12. Doha, Qatar 13. Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia 14. Sept-Iles, Quebec, Canada 15. South Queensferry, Scotland 16. Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France 17. Costa Maya/Mahahual, Quintana Roo, Mexico 18. Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico 19. Le Verdon, Aquitaine, France 20. Gaspé, Quebec, Canada 21. Port Sultan Qaboos, Muscat, Oman 22. Saguenay, Quebec, Canada I appreciate all the responses to this little game and what I've learned along the way. I hope those who have played along (or perhaps just watched) have enjoyed it. I now return you to our regular port photo identification game. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted November 1, 2020 #1478 Share Posted November 1, 2020 @bluemarble I think the chances are low that any Cunard ships have visited the below Q ports. But perhaps if you have a free moment they are worth a quick search in your files. I could not find any references from a google search of Cunard + {port name}, but your excellent library of itineraries may be a better source. Qingdao, China Quy Nhon, Vietnam Barranquilla, Colombia Itaqui, Brazil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted November 1, 2020 #1479 Share Posted November 1, 2020 I suppose we can't do anything with something like (Genoa for) Cinque Terre? Thank you so much for this most enjoyable game. I am hoping you have more obscure letters up your sleeve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 1, 2020 #1480 Share Posted November 1, 2020 8 hours ago, sfred said: @bluemarble I think the chances are low that any Cunard ships have visited the below Q ports. But perhaps if you have a free moment they are worth a quick search in your files. I could not find any references from a google search of Cunard + {port name}, but your excellent library of itineraries may be a better source. Qingdao, China Quy Nhon, Vietnam Barranquilla, Colombia Itaqui, Brazil Excellent investigating for potential candidate ports. But no, I'm not seeing any of those ports listed in itineraries for the current Cunard fleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 1, 2020 #1481 Share Posted November 1, 2020 3 hours ago, exlondoner said: I suppose we can't do anything with something like (Genoa for) Cinque Terre? Thank you so much for this most enjoyable game. I am hoping you have more obscure letters up your sleeve. Once again, I like your thinking there. But yes, that's probably stretching the premise too far to include destinations near the ports. I'd be more inclined if the itineraries actually listed it as "Genoa (for Cinque Terre)" or "Cinque Terre (Genoa)". If we got into places near the ports, we would need to include places like Queens, New York, a borough neighboring Brooklyn or perhaps lots of places in Queensland, Australia near the ports there and then I'm afraid the game could go on almost indefinitely. I don't know if I want to repeat this same game with another obscure letter. I appreciate the encouragement, but we've already discussed the letter 'x' pretty well and 'z' would include all of New Zealand, Brazil and the Azores. Perhaps I can come up with another game involving some other kind of word play on the port names. I'll give that some thought. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare carlmm Posted November 2, 2020 #1482 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) On 10/31/2020 at 3:21 PM, carlmm said: Too easy? Where in the world? On 10/31/2020 at 5:48 PM, Lanky Lad said: That looks like the river Elbe? On 10/31/2020 at 7:20 PM, carlmm said: Interesting answer! Indeed it does look a bit like Elbchaussee. But no, it is not in Germany. It was a tender port. No idea? This might help: While I was standing on deck of the the Caronia when I took the above picture, small boats can go right into town: Edited November 2, 2020 by carlmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray66 Posted November 2, 2020 #1483 Share Posted November 2, 2020 (edited) 50 minutes ago, carlmm said: No idea? This might help: While I was standing on deck of the the Caronia when I took the above picture, small boats can go right into town: I'll take a wild guess at Falmouth, Cornwall in England. That's what it looks like anyway. Edited November 2, 2020 by Ray66 typo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 2, 2020 #1484 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Since I promised I'd give some thought to devising another puzzle involving Cunard cruise port names, here's one I've come up with. This one might be a bit harder than finding port names that contain the letter 'q'. What port, where any of the current Cunard ships have called, contains three consecutive letters in its name that appear in consecutive alphabetical order? To illustrate, if the village of Morston on England's Norfolk coast happened to be a Cunard cruise port, it would qualify as an answer to this question since the name Morston contains the three letters 'r', 's' and 't' in that order with no other letters between them and no letters skipped or repeated in the alphabetical sequence of those three letters. For the purposes of this question, I'm only looking at the name of the port's city/town/village. I'm not considering the name of the port's county/state/province/island or country. I have only managed to find one port name that works. Let's see if you can come up with that one and perhaps others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted November 2, 2020 #1485 Share Posted November 2, 2020 1 hour ago, bluemarble said: Since I promised I'd give some thought to devising another puzzle involving Cunard cruise port names, here's one I've come up with. This one might be a bit harder than finding port names that contain the letter 'q'. What port, where any of the current Cunard ships have called, contains three consecutive letters in its name that appear in consecutive alphabetical order? To illustrate, if the village of Morston on England's Norfolk coast happened to be a Cunard cruise port, it would qualify as an answer to this question since the name Morston contains the three letters 'r', 's' and 't' in that order with no other letters between them and no letters skipped or repeated in the alphabetical sequence of those three letters. For the purposes of this question, I'm only looking at the name of the port's city/town/village. I'm not considering the name of the port's county/state/province/island or country. I have only managed to find one port name that works. Let's see if you can come up with that one and perhaps others. Assuming the alphabet is circular not linear, can we count Port Elizabeth with zab? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare carlmm Posted November 2, 2020 #1486 Share Posted November 2, 2020 2 hours ago, Ray66 said: I'll take a wild guess at Falmouth, Cornwall in England. That's what it looks like anyway. Perfectly correct. I had guessed a British cruise friend would recognize Falmouth. Very good. @bluemarble Now we have two towns named Falmouth on the port list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 2, 2020 #1487 Share Posted November 2, 2020 1 minute ago, exlondoner said: Assuming the alphabet is circular not linear, can we count Port Elizabeth with zab? Once again a very creative solution. I was not considering circular alphabetical order, but since I didn't specifically rule that out, I'll accept that as one solution. Now, what port name(s) can we find that don't use circular alphabetical order (or reverse alphabetical order, or an alphabet other than the modern English alphabet for that matter since I didn't specifically rule those out before now either)? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted November 2, 2020 #1488 Share Posted November 2, 2020 9 minutes ago, bluemarble said: Once again a very creative solution. I was not considering circular alphabetical order, but since I didn't specifically rule that out, I'll accept that as one solution. Now, what port name(s) can we find that don't use circular alphabetical order (or reverse alphabetical order, or an alphabet other than the modern English alphabet for that matter since I didn't specifically rule those out before now either)? Alas, I've found four near misses, which I may bore you with in due course, but nothing mentioned in my most recent brochure (largely a work of fiction anyway) seems to comply. 😀😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 2, 2020 #1489 Share Posted November 2, 2020 26 minutes ago, carlmm said: ... Now we have two towns named Falmouth on the port list. Yes indeed we do thanks to both of your Falmouth contributions. Duly noted. We are now up to 187 ports identified on this thread so far by my count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare carlmm Posted November 2, 2020 #1490 Share Posted November 2, 2020 32 minutes ago, bluemarble said: Once again a very creative solution. I was not considering circular alphabetical order, but since I didn't specifically rule that out, I'll accept that as one solution. Now, what port name(s) can we find that don't use circular alphabetical order (or reverse alphabetical order, or an alphabet other than the modern English alphabet for that matter since I didn't specifically rule those out before now either)? Does Fort-de-France, Martinique count? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 2, 2020 #1491 Share Posted November 2, 2020 1 minute ago, carlmm said: Does Fort-de-France, Martinique count? Another creative solution that I'll accept since I hadn't specifically ruled out special characters, just other letters between the three consecutive letters def. Now, what other port name(s) can we find where the three letters appear without any intervening characters of any kind including a space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted November 2, 2020 #1492 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Clearly you are going to reject the suggestion that we look on i and j as the same letter and allow Ketchikan. Just teasing. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted November 2, 2020 Author #1493 Share Posted November 2, 2020 I got Rethymnon but I can't find any Cunard port calls 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 2, 2020 #1494 Share Posted November 2, 2020 3 minutes ago, Host Hattie said: I got Rethymnon but I can't find any Cunard port calls Yeah, that would be a good candidate. I don't show any of the Cunard ships calling there either though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare carlmm Posted November 2, 2020 #1495 Share Posted November 2, 2020 1 hour ago, bluemarble said: Now, what other port name(s) can we find where the three letters appear without any intervening characters of any kind including a space. Kralendijk, Bonaire 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted November 2, 2020 #1496 Share Posted November 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Host Hattie said: I got Rethymnon but I can't find any Cunard port calls Similarly, has any of them ever been to the Island of Lemnos? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 2, 2020 #1497 Share Posted November 2, 2020 23 minutes ago, carlmm said: Kralendijk, Bonaire That's the one I found. Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 2, 2020 #1498 Share Posted November 2, 2020 11 minutes ago, exlondoner said: Similarly, has any of them ever been to the Island of Lemnos? Another good effort, although I believe the name of the city/town/village for the port there would be Myrnia. In any event, I'm not seeing calls to Lemnos/Limnos by any of the Cunard ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted November 2, 2020 #1499 Share Posted November 2, 2020 3 hours ago, exlondoner said: Clearly you are going to reject the suggestion that we look on i and j as the same letter and allow Ketchikan. Just teasing. I meant to reply earlier, after the answer was revealed, how you were on the right track with that comment. I don't know much about the Dutch language, but I suppose the original Dutch for "Kralendijk" might have involved the use of the 'ij' diagraph which gets separated into the individual letters 'i' and 'j' when represented in English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted November 2, 2020 #1500 Share Posted November 2, 2020 9 hours ago, bluemarble said: What port, where any of the current Cunard ships have called, contains three consecutive letters in its name that appear in consecutive alphabetical order? Harstad Norway. Several other cruise lines have visited, but unfortunately no Cunard ship in my research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now