Where in the world ?

[bluemarble]

On 8/26/2021 at 7:01 AM, rafinmd said:

How about this one?

 

 

Roy

 

19 hours ago, rafinmd said:

It would be considered a North American port.  I have a little disagreement with @bluemarble about the correct country.

 

Roy

 

12 hours ago, rafinmd said:

Ok, this wasn't intended to be a sail-by.  We were unable to tender there due to rough seas but I thought it a pretty good view of the town.

 

I'll add a couple more views:

 

 

Roy

 

I do recall now having some misgivings about how to list this port on our unseen ports list since it's nowhere near its home country. I listed it according to its geographic location as if it were a part of Canada rather than the country in Europe that administers it. Accuracy should have prevailed by listing its actual country over listing it based on what it's near.

 

This is not St Pierre, Newfoundland but rather St Pierre, France.

 

I think these photos were taken October 4, 2012 from Crystal Symphony. Details can be found on page 8 of @rafinmd's blog On and off the Symphony 9/5 to 11/18 (with a Cunard prelude).

Edited August 28, 2021 by bluemarble

[rafinmd]

16 minutes ago, bluemarble said:

 

 

 

I do recall now having some misgivings about how to list this port on our unseen ports list since it's nowhere near its home country. I listed it according to its geographic location as if it were a part of Canada rather than the country in Europe that administers it. Accuracy should have prevailed by listing its actual country over listing it based on what it's near.

 

This is not St Pierre, Newfoundland but rather St Pierre, France.

 

I think these photos were taken October 4, 2012 from Crystal Symphony. Details can be found on page 8 of @rafinmd's blog On and off the Symphony 9/5 to 11/18 (with a Cunard prelude).

Well done!

 

Roy

[Host Hattie]

Thank you both, that was an interesting geography/history lesson.

[bluemarble]

Now that we've started a new page on this thread and are a couple pages away from our previous unseen Cunard ports list, this may be a good time to post another update to that list including the various additions and corrections we've discussed.

 

Cunard ports not seen yet on the "Where in the World?" thread

 

Abaco, Bahamas
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Aden, Yemen
Aguilas, Spain
Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Akita, Japan
Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia
Al Manama, Bahrain
Al Mukalla, Yemen
Alanya, Turkey
Almeria, Spain
Alotau, Papua New Guinea
Altea, Spain
Ambon, Indonesia
Anavilhanas Archipelago, Brazil
Angra dos Reis, Brazil
Anjouan, Comoros
Antofagasta, Chile
Anzac Cove, Turkey
Apra, Guam
Arendal, Norway
Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Balholm/Balestrand, Norway
Bangor, Northern Ireland
Baubau, Indonesia
Belawan, Indonesia
Biak, Indonesia
Bitung, Indonesia
Bom Bom Island, Sao Tome and Principe
Bornholm, Denmark
Brindisi, Italy
Cadaques, Spain
Cape York QLD, Australia
Cap-Haitien, Haiti
Carriacou, Grenada Grenadines
Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic
Castro, Chile
Cebu, Philippines
Ceuta, Spanish Morocco
Christiansoe, Denmark
Christmas Island, Kiribati
Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo
Collioure, France
Conflict Islands, Papua New Guinea
Daba Al-Hisn, Oman
Davao, Philippines
Deboyne Lagoon, Papua New Guinea
Delos, Greece
Desroches, Seychelles
Diego Suarez/Antsiranana, Madagascar
Djibouti, Djibouti
Drottningholm, Sweden
Dunmore East, Ireland
Easter Island, Chile
Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Figueira da Foz, Portugal
Florianopolis, Brazil
Formentera Island, Balearic Islands
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Galveston, Texas
Georgetown, Ascension Island
Gilbert Islands, Kiribati
Glengarriff, Ireland
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Goa, India
Godthaab, Greenland
Guangzhou, China
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Gudvangen, Norway
Hakodate, Japan
Hanko, Finland
Hayman Island QLD, Australia
Heimaey, Iceland
Hodeidah, Yemen
Holsteinborg, Greenland
Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
Ilhabela, Brazil
Isle of Pines, New Caledonia
Isola di Ponza, Italy
Jakobshavn, Greenland
Jedda, Saudi Arabia
Kagoshima, Japan
Kahului, Hawaii
Kanazawa, Japan
Kangean Islands, Indonesia
Karachi, Pakistan
Karpathos, Greece
Kerteminde, Denmark
Khasab, Oman
Khor Al Fa Kkan, UAE
Kingston, Jamaica
Kiriwina, Papua New Guinea
Kitakyushu, Japan
Kochi, Japan
Kristiansund, Norway
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Kyrenia, Cyprus
La Digue, Seychelles
La Guaira, Venezuela
Labadie Shores, Haiti
Laccadive Islands, India
Lae, Papua New Guinea
Lamu, Kenya
L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
Larantuka, Indonesia
Larnaca, Cyprus
Lautoka, Fiji
Lome, Togo
Low Island QLD, Australia
Lyngseidet, Norway
Mahajanga, Madagascar
Majuro, Marshall Islands
Mamoudzou, Mayotte
Manfredonia, Italy
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Mariefred, Sweden
Marmaris, Turkey
Marstrand, Sweden
Mas a Tierra/Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile
Massawa, Eritrea
Mazatlan, Mexico
Merok, Norway
Molokai, Hawaii
Molyvos, Greece
Montserrat, British Overseas Territories
Moroni, Comoros
Motril, Spain
Mtwara, Tanzania
Muara, Brunei
Nagoya, Japan
Nessebar, Bulgaria
Norheimsund, Norway
Nosy Komba, Madagascar
Ofotfjord, Norway
Olbia, Sardinia
Opatija, Croatia
Orpheus Island QLD, Australia
Oye, Norway
Palm Island, St Vincent and the Grenadines
Palopo, Indonesia
Pekalongan, Indonesia
Pohnpei/Ponape, Micronesia
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela
Porquerolles, France
Port Antonio, Jamaica
Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Port Denarau, Fiji
Port Douglas QLD, Australia
Port Sudan, Sudan
Port Vila, Vanuatu
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Porto Cervo, Sardinia
Portoroz, Slovenia
Porto-Vecchio, Corsica
Praslin, Seychelles
Prickly Pear Cays, Anguilla
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos
Puerto Chacabuco, Chile
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Pulau Bawean, Indonesia
Pulau Naira, Indonesia
Pulau Nias, Indonesia
Pulau Pangkor, Malaysia
Pulau Pelangi, Indonesia
Pulau Penuba, Indonesia
Punta del Este, Uruguay
Puri, India
Qingdao/Tsingtao, China
Qinhuangdao, China
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Ringaskiddy, Ireland
Rugen Island, Germany
Sakaiminato, Japan
Salaverry, Peru
Samana, Dominican Republic
Sanary-Sur-Mer, France
Santa Marta, Colombia
Santana, Brazil
Santo Antonio, Portugal
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Santo Tomas de Castilla, Guatemala
Sanya, China
Seogwipo, South Korea
Sepa Island, Indonesia
Sevastopol, Crimea
Seven Spirit Bay NT, Australia
Sibenik, Croatia
Sibolga, Indonesia
Skarsvag, Norway
Skopelos, Greece
Skyros, Greece
Sochi, Russia
St Malo, France
Surabaya, Indonesia
Suva, Fiji
Syros, Greece
Takoradi, Ghana
Talcahuano, Chile
Tamatave/Toamasina, Madagascar
Tarawa, Kiribati
Tarragona, Spain
Thiruvananthapuram, India
Tianjin, China
Tobago Cays, St Vincent and the Grenadines
Tristan da Cunha, British Overseas Territories
Tunis (La Goulette), Tunisia
Tuticorin, India
Varna, Bulgaria
Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Vitoria, Brazil
Vung Tau, Vietnam
Waingapu, Indonesia
Wilmington, North Carolina
Xingang, China
Yantai, China
Yatsushiro, Japan
Ytterdal/Eidsdal, Norway
Zamboanga, Philippines

 

Additional Cruise-By Calls

 

Alaska
Columbia Glacier, Alaska
Endicott Arm, Alaska
Kenai Fjords, Alaska
Kings Bay, Alaska
Port Nellie Juan, Alaska

 

Australia
Tasman Peninsula TAS, Australia

 

Canada
Alert Bay, British Columbia
Bella Bella, British Columbia

 

Iceland
Eyjafjordur, Iceland
Hrisey, Iceland

 

Norway
Hardangerfjord, Norway
Innvikfjorden, Norway
Lustrafjorden, Norway
Nordfjord, Norway
Romsdalsfjord, Norway
Storfjorden, Norway
Sunnylvsfjorden, Norway
 
UK
Flamborough Head, England
South Cornwall, England
Bass Rock, Scotland
Cape Wrath, Scotland
Isle of Arran, Scotland
Isle of Islay, Scotland
Isle of May, Scotland
Isle of Mull, Scotland

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11 hours ago, bluemarble said:

This is not St Pierre, Newfoundland but rather St Pierre, France.

 

I was looking in all the wrong places!  Good find, @bluemarble, and thanks @rafinmdfor an interesting challenge.

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This one should be easy.  @Host Hattie identified my previous photo of the nearby Cunard port.

 

[Host Hattie]

I guess this might be the Tasman Peninsula then ?

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54 minutes ago, Host Hattie said:

I guess this might be the Tasman Peninsula then ?

 

Correct!  The nearby port is Port Arthur, Tasmania, and the cruise-by is the Tasman Peninsula.  The photo was taken from the Devil's Kitchen cliff observation platform, looking south towards Patterson's Arch.  The wife and I were there on a road trip when we visited Port Arthur, only a month or so prior to the tragic shooting on 28 April 1996.

[sfred]

This might be my last cruise-by photo contribution of places I've been to.  In northern hemisphere summer of 2004, the wife and I spent a wonderful fortnight in this area, doing coastal walks and enjoying the countryside.  It is a part of the world we'd dearly like to get back to soon.  Both photos are public domain from wikimedia commons.

 

 

 

 

[bluemarble]

12 hours ago, sfred said:

This might be my last cruise-by photo contribution of places I've been to.  In northern hemisphere summer of 2004, the wife and I spent a wonderful fortnight in this area, doing coastal walks and enjoying the countryside.  It is a part of the world we'd dearly like to get back to soon.  Both photos are public domain from wikimedia commons.

 

 

 

I'm getting a match to South Cornwall, England for this one. More specifically, it looks like these could be views along the coastal walk at Lansallos.

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3 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

I'm getting a match to South Cornwall, England for this one. More specifically, it looks like these could be views along the coastal walk at Lansallos.

 

100% correct, @bluemarble.  In June of 2004 we rented a National Trust cottage in the South Cornwall coast village of Lansallos, and had a wonderful fortnight walking parts of the Southwest Coastal path, and stopping in the various towns for pub lunches.  Is there anything better than a proper pint in a UK country pub?  Well, maybe a pint in one of the three Cunard Golden Lions, but it is a tough comparison.

[rafinmd]

How about this one:

 

 

Roy

[Host Hattie]

I think that's Guayaquil, Ecuador

[rafinmd]

2 hours ago, Host Hattie said:

I think that's Guayaquil, Ecuador

Correct you are, @Host Hattie.  It's from a Crystal Symphony Antarctica (Buenos to Miami) cruise in 2016 with a bit of a  strange Cunard Connection.  I started the trip with 2 Cunard Transatlantics (QM2 to Southampton, QV to Ft. Lauderdale).  Not really a fit to the big picture except that it got me out of the Northeast before flying to Miami.  Turned out to be a very wise move because Baltimore got about 30 inches of snow the day I would have left.

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

At this point I have relatively few ports with a Cunard connection and disclosing that might give the port away.  There will be a few more but the Cunard Connection will be revealed after the port i s identified.  Here's my next one

 

Roy

[exlondoner]

This wonderful,and informative thread has vanished from the front page. So here is somewhere I have actually sailed past on Cunard, but alas on a misty day.

[bluemarble]

3 hours ago, rafinmd said:

At this point I have relatively few ports with a Cunard connection and disclosing that might give the port away.  There will be a few more but the Cunard Connection will be revealed after the port i s identified.  Here's my next one

 

Roy

 

Great to see there is still some interest in this thread with two new contributions today! I'll give this first one a try.

 

I figured this was probably somewhere in Southeast Asia. After coming up empty looking in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, I found a match in China. I think this is Sanya, China.

 

I'll be interested to hear about the Cunard connection to this port. I'm seeing only one call to Sanya by the current Cunard fleet. That was in February 2015 during QM2's world cruise that year.

[rafinmd]

2 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

Great to see there is still some interest in this thread with two new contributions today! I'll give this first one a try.

 

I figured this was probably somewhere in Southeast Asia. After coming up empty looking in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, I found a match in China. I think this is Sanya, China.

 

I'll be interested to hear about the Cunard connection to this port. I'm seeing only one call to Sanya by the current Cunard fleet. That was in February 2015 during QM2's world cruise that year.

Right you are.  No Cunard connection this time.  It was a 2012 cruise on MS Zaandam from Singapore to Hong Kong.

 

Roy

[rafinmd]

Any thoughts on this one?

 

 

Roy

[Tonopah]

46 minutes ago, rafinmd said:

Any thoughts on this one?

 

 

Roy

That’s a Frigatebird so I’m going to guess Galveston TX.

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9 hours ago, exlondoner said:

This wonderful,and informative thread has vanished from the front page. So here is somewhere I have actually sailed past on Cunard, but alas on a misty day.

 

Thanks everyone for the new photos!  This one is Flamborough Head, England.

 

[exlondoner]

It is indeed.

[rafinmd]

12 hours ago, Tonopah said:

That’s a Frigatebird so I’m going to guess Galveston TX.

It's more exotic than that. Here's another photo:

 

Roy

[exlondoner]

Galapagos? You wouldn't want one of those treading on your foot.

[rafinmd]

3 hours ago, exlondoner said:

Galapagos? You wouldn't want one of those treading on your foot.

Right you are.  Not quite sure how it got on Cunard's list since big cruise ships aren't allowed there.  I suppose it was an overland tour where people got off say in Lima and rejoined the ship a couple of  ports later like Guayaquil.  I was there on a 20-some passenger ship with International Expeditions in 2009.

 

Roy