sfred Posted October 12, 2022 #4151 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Photo number two looks like Cape Wrath Scotland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted October 13, 2022 #4152 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Well done @sfred. It is indeed. For a bonus trivia point, anyone. There are only two capes in Britain. What is the other one? No, that's not a clue to the other picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted October 13, 2022 #4153 Share Posted October 13, 2022 4 minutes ago, Colin_Cameron said: Well done @sfred. It is indeed. For a bonus trivia point, anyone. There are only two capes in Britain. What is the other one? No, that's not a clue to the other picture. Cape Cornwall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted October 13, 2022 #4154 Share Posted October 13, 2022 1 hour ago, exlondoner said: Cape Cornwall. ✔️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted October 13, 2022 #4155 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Giving rise to the celebrated Q and A: Why is England so cold? Because she left her cape in Cornwall. (Wouldn’t work this summer.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted October 13, 2022 #4156 Share Posted October 13, 2022 On 10/12/2022 at 4:18 AM, Colin_Cameron said: I'm going to go out on a limb to try and identify this photo. I can't get the hills in the background to work at all from available online images so I have my doubts, but the rest of the scene looks like it might be the town of Portnahaven (left center) and the Rinns/Rhinns of Islay lighthouse (far right) on the Isle of Islay, Scotland. How did I do with this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted October 13, 2022 #4157 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Full marks to @bluemarble. Taken from Fred Olden's Borealis last month. The hills at the back is the Mull of Kintyre. Zoom lenses really throw the perspective out, and also explains why the image is not as sharp as it might be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted October 13, 2022 #4158 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Now that we are several pages further along this thread since I last posted the port lists and the latest photos have been identified, here are updated lists. We have now seen 588 different Cunard ports/cruise-bys according to my count. There are still plenty of opportunities to post photos you may have of any Cunard ports/cruise-bys we haven't seen yet. Also feel free to post photos offering different views of any of the ports we have already seen. Where in the World 2022-10-13.txt Cunard ports not seen yet 2022-10-13.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted October 13, 2022 #4159 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Concur with your port count @bluemarble. With the addition of Isle of Islay the UK is now at the milestone of 50 Cunard ports and cruise-bys, the second highest of any country and narrowly behind the US at 55 (21 of which are in Alaska). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted October 13, 2022 #4160 Share Posted October 13, 2022 (edited) Another (potentially) interesting statistic is that the Cunard seen ports and cruise-bys list consists of 75 unique countries. The top 10 countries represent only 50.7% of the 588 total ports. Cunard certainly gets around in the world. Edited October 13, 2022 by sfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted October 14, 2022 #4161 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Apologies, there was an error in my formula that calculated the number of unique seen countries. The correct number is more impressive - 133 countries. Considering that there are only approximately 195 countries in total in the world, that means that we've "seen" approximately 68 percent of the world's countries here in this topic. Cunard's current and former ships, and her passengers here on Cruise Critic, certainly are well-traveled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted October 14, 2022 #4162 Share Posted October 14, 2022 1 hour ago, sfred said: Apologies, there was an error in my formula that calculated the number of unique seen countries. The correct number is more impressive - 133 countries. Considering that there are only approximately 195 countries in total in the world, that means that we've "seen" approximately 68 percent of the world's countries here in this topic. Cunard's current and former ships, and her passengers here on Cruise Critic, certainly are well-traveled. And presumably a fair number of the 62 unseen are landlocked and therefore impossible, unless Cunard takes to river cruising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted October 14, 2022 #4163 Share Posted October 14, 2022 From Wikipedia: "There are currently 44 landlocked countries and 4 partially recognized landlocked states." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sogne Posted October 14, 2022 #4164 Share Posted October 14, 2022 have we had this ? Now official sail by Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted October 14, 2022 #4165 Share Posted October 14, 2022 3 hours ago, sfred said: ... Considering that there are only approximately 195 countries in total in the world, that means that we've "seen" approximately 68 percent of the world's countries here in this topic. Cunard's current and former ships, and her passengers here on Cruise Critic, certainly are well-traveled. Which set me thinking. How many have I visited? First count came out at exactly 50. Then I realised I hadn't included the UK 😳. So, a grand total of 51. I have no doubt that a number of you will beat that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exlondoner Posted October 14, 2022 #4166 Share Posted October 14, 2022 And of course, there is history to consider. Austria is currently landlocked, but until 1918, included Trieste, so where does that leave it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Essiesmom Posted October 14, 2022 #4167 Share Posted October 14, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, Colin_Cameron said: Which set me thinking. How many have I visited? First count came out at exactly 50. Then I realised I hadn't included the UK 😳. So, a grand total of 51. I have no doubt that a number of you will beat that. I’m at 75, so far only 5 landlocked. Some were parts of a larger federation when I visited, but I now count them separately. EM Edited October 14, 2022 by Essiesmom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemarble Posted October 14, 2022 #4168 Share Posted October 14, 2022 7 hours ago, sogne said: have we had this ? Now official sail by No, we haven't had this one. It isn't listed as a cruise-by call on our unseen ports list but it should have been. We've seen the port of Messina a few miles down the coast on the opposite shore (including one of your photos). But when the ships don't call there, Cunard lists this location on their itineraries as "Transit Messina Strait, Italy (Cruise-by)". If I've identified this photo correctly, I'll added Messina Strait, Italy to the list of Cunard ports we've seen on this thread. This brings up a couple more similar cruise-by "straits" listed on Cunard itineraries we haven't seen yet and aren't on our unseen ports list. Here are two more suggestions for cruise-by photo contributions. I'll add them to our unseen ports list. Magellan Straits, Chile Dardanelles Strait, Turkey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted October 14, 2022 #4169 Share Posted October 14, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, Colin_Cameron said: Which set me thinking. How many have I visited? First count came out at exactly 50. Then I realised I hadn't included the UK 😳. So, a grand total of 51. I have no doubt that a number of you will beat that. My numbers are much more modest. 42 total countries, 39 of which are on our seen list (the difference being Austria, Switzerland, and Czech Republic where Cunard is unlikely to visit). However, only 20 of the 39 have been by Cunard ship. That number will become 21 next month with the addition of Norway to the Cunard total, but I clearly have a long way to go -- time, funds, and border closure regulations permitting! Edited October 14, 2022 by sfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted October 14, 2022 #4170 Share Posted October 14, 2022 4 minutes ago, bluemarble said: No, we haven't had this one. It isn't listed as a cruise-by call on our unseen ports list but it should have been. We've seen the port of Messina a few miles down the coast on the opposite shore (including one of your photos). But when the ships don't call there, Cunard lists this location on their itineraries as "Transit Messina Strait, Italy (Cruise-by)". If I've identified this photo correctly, I'll added Messina Strait, Italy to the list of Cunard ports we've seen on this thread. This brings up a couple more similar cruise-by "straits" listed on Cunard itineraries we haven't seen yet and aren't on our unseen ports list. Here are two more suggestions for cruise-by photo contributions. I'll add them to our unseen ports list. Magellan Straits, Chile Dardanelles Strait, Turkey Well spotted and good thinking, @bluemarble. I wasn't getting close with my research. I tried several google searches for "electricity pylon near ocean" and variations thereof. The closest match that came up for the pylon shape in @sogne's photo was in China, but I knew that was way off given the remainder of the photo clues. Now that you've identified it, I do recall seeing this location during our QV trip from Civitavecchia to Venice in 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sogne Posted October 15, 2022 #4171 Share Posted October 15, 2022 a new one i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfred Posted October 15, 2022 #4172 Share Posted October 15, 2022 28 minutes ago, sogne said: a new one i think Thanks @sogne. This is the Helles Memorial in Gallipoli Turkey overlooking the Dardanelles Straight. Anzac day, on 25 April each year, is a very important day here in Australia, honoring the members of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps from WW1, and all service men and women. Mrs sfred and I go to the dawn service each year if we're in Australia on the day. What is the history of your photo? Was it taken on a Cunard voyage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sogne Posted October 15, 2022 #4173 Share Posted October 15, 2022 1 hour ago, sfred said: Thanks @sogne. This is the Helles Memorial in Gallipoli Turkey overlooking the Dardanelles Straight. Anzac day, on 25 April each year, is a very important day here in Australia, honoring the members of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps from WW1, and all service men and women. Mrs sfred and I go to the dawn service each year if we're in Australia on the day. What is the history of your photo? Was it taken on a Cunard voyage? QV Black Sea 2013 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted October 15, 2022 #4174 Share Posted October 15, 2022 I was planning this for my next entry but got beaten to it. Great minds think alike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sogne Posted October 16, 2022 #4175 Share Posted October 16, 2022 not had this I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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