* Haina Occidental Port, located just 20 km west of Santo Domingo, is one of the most important port in the Dominican Republic.

* Palenque Port is located southwest of Santo Domingo.

In 1418 two of the captains of Prince Henry the Navigator, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, were driven by a storm to an island which they called Porto Santo (" Holy Port ") in gratitude for their rescue from the shipwreck.

The two main cities of Santo and Port Vila also had city councils, but these did not have a great deal of authority.

* International scheduled destinations: Mérida ( MID ), Iquitos ( IQT ), Bogotá ( BOG ), Lima ( LIM ), Panama City ( PTY ) and San José SJO, Santo Domingo ( SDQ ), Santiago ( SCL ), Port au Prince.

Air Santo Domingo Boeing 757-200, Port of Spain, 2004

Other important towns are Juan Griego, Pampatar ( home of the Port Authority ), Punta de Piedras, San Juan Bautista, Las Guevaras, Las Hernández, Villa Rosa, Bella Vista ( Margarita ), El Valle del Espíritu Santo.

Popular destinations such as Tanna and Santo can be reached daily from Port Vila, while more remote locations can be reached on a less regular basis.

He hails from the largest island of Vanuatu, Espiritu Santo, from Port Olry.

The German U-boat SM U-157 sinks the Portuguese ship Gloria, 30 miles from Port Santo, Madeira Islands

Baixo Guandu is served by the Vitória a Minas railroad, which is a 905 km railroad, which is used to transport iron from the Iron Quadrangle in Minas Gerais to the Port of Tubarão in the state of Espírito Santo.

Although Barahona is not too developed in transport ways, the city counts with a Sea Port, which receive many ferries from different points in the Caribbean, and an Airport, which has been reactivated with many flights a week to Punta Cana via Santo Domingo.

Vensecar Internacional operates freight services to the following international scheduled destinations ( at January 2005 ): Aruba, Barbados, Bogotá, Curaçao, Miami, Panama City, Port of Spain, and Santo Domingo.

Amerijet International operates freight services to the following international scheduled destinations ( as of February 2010 ): Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Barbados, Barcelona, Belize City, Bogota, Cancún, Ciudad del Carmen, Curaçao, Curitiba, Dominica, Fort-de-France, Freeport, Georgetown, Grenada, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Kingston, Las Piedras, Lima, Managua, Manaus, Maracaibo, Maturín, Mérida, Mexico City, Montserrat, Monterrey, Nassau, Nevis, Paramaribo, Pointe-à-Pitre, Porlamar, Port-au-Prince, Port of Spain, Puerto Plata, San Juan, San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, Santiago ( DR ), Santo Domingo, St Kitts, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten, St Vincent, Tortola.

Port Olry is a Francophone town ( population 1300 ) on Espiritu Santo island in the Sanma Province of Vanuatu.

Located on the south shore of the Columbia, the city is served by the Port of Astoria with a deep-water port.

In recent years, the Port Authority has established it as one of the most important ports in Spain for cruises, with 72 calls to port made by cruise ships in 2007 bringing some 80, 000 passengers and 30, 000 crew to the city each year.

Shortly after establishing the settlement at Port Jackson, on 15 February 1788, Phillip sent Lieutenant Philip Gidley King with 8 free men and a number of convicts to establish the second British colony in the Pacific at Norfolk Island.

Lara moved in with his future fellow Trinidadian cricketer Michael Carew in Woodbrook, Port of Spain ( a 20 minute drive from Santa Cruz ).

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

The largest seaport with the deepest channel to a port in the Adriatic is Port of Rijeka on the northern Croatian coast, followed by Ploče in southern Dalmatia.

There are of crude oil pipelines in Croatia, connecting the Port of Rijeka oil terminal with refineries in Rijeka and Sisak, as well as several transhipment terminals.

For example, the federal government funds Canada Day events at the Old Port of Montreal — an area run by a federal Crown corporation — while the National Holiday parade is a grassroots effort that has been met with pressure to cease, even from federal officials.

* Eastern-most point-at the point where the northern section of the border with Uganda enters Lake Albert immediately west of Mahagi Port, Oritentale Province

John Clements Wickham named the region " Port Darwin " in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ship's previous voyage which had ended in October 1836.

Government troops joined forces with the rebels and the railway to the Treaty Port of Tientsin was interrupted.

A dejected procession, numbering some 4, 000 according to most of the sources, such as Hills or Jackson filed out of the Land Port with Queen Isabella's banner at their head, and led by the Spanish Governor, Diego de Salinas, the Spanish garrison, with their three brass cannon, the religious orders, the city council and all those inhabitants who did not wish to take the oath of allegiance to Charles III as asked by the terms of surrender.

A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was found surrounded by more than 200 Great Auk beaks, which are believed to have been part of a suit made from their skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.

This increased again with the discovery of the Wilmington Oil Field in 1932, and the development of the Port of Los Angeles as a means of shipping crude oil overseas.

Holden's second full-scale car factory, located in Fishermans Bend ( Port Melbourne ), was completed in 1936, with construction beginning in 1939 on a new plant in Pagewood, New South Wales.

For the most part, car bodies were now manufactured at Elizabeth, South Australia, with engines as before, confined to the Fishermans Bend plant in Port Melbourne, Victoria.

On 18 May 2005, " Holden Ltd " became " GM Holden Ltd ", coinciding with the resettling to the new Holden headquarters on 191 Salmon Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria.

Connick was arrested by the Port Authority Police in 1992 and charged with having a 9mm pistol in his possession at JFK International Airport.

The second Test at Durban was lost, but he top scored at Port Elizabeth with 85, to help square the three Test series 1-1.

A local ferry operated by RET links Hook of Holland with the Maasvlakte part of the Port of Rotterdam.

19th-century South Africa did not attract mass Irish migration, but Irish communities are to be found in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Kimberley, and Johannesburg, with smaller communities in Pretoria, Barberton, Durban and East London.

IKEA store at Port Island in Kobe, Japan, one of the very few IKEA stores with direct mass transit access.

In February 1788, he selected its location to be Port Jackson ( now Sydney Harbour ).

The boomerang was first encountered by western people at Farm Cove ( Port Jackson ), Australia, in December 1804 where its use as a weapon was witnessed during a tribal skirmish:

A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.

The rebels had failed to take either of Dublin's two main train stations or either of its ports, at Dublin Port and Kingstown.

( However, its “ extension ” continues southwest almost to the sea south of Port Salut.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

On October 10, 2006, GM began producing the Hummer H3 at its Port Elizabeth plant in South Africa for international markets.

Japan is accredited to Barbados from its Embassy in Port of Spain ( Trinidad and Tobago ) and an honorary consulate in Bridgetown.

Niger relies on the port at Cotonou ( Benin ), and to a lesser degree Lomé ( Togo ), and Port Harcourt ( Nigeria ), as its main route to overseas trade.

Niger relies on the port at Cotonou, and to a lesser degree Lomé ( Togo ), and Port Harcourt ( Nigeria ), as its main route to overseas trade.

* Nigeria is accredited to Barbados from its Embassy in Port of Spain, ( Trinidad and Tobago ).

When the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson in January 1788, Phillip ordered Lieutenant Philip Gidley King to lead a party of 15 convicts and seven free men, including surgeon Thomas Jamison ( the future Principal Surgeon of New South Wales ), to take control of the island and prepare for its commercial development.

A “ Letter from an Officer of Marines at New South Wales, 16 November 1788 ”, published in the London newspaper, The World, 15 May 1789, reported the glowing description of the island and its prospects by Philip Gidley King, but also drew attention to the fatal defect of the lack of a safe port: “ The said Island lies near Port Jackson, and is nearly as large as the Isle of Wight.

In 1962, Tom Hayden wrote its founding document, the Port Huron Statement, which issued a call for " participatory democracy " based on non-violent civil disobedience.

The Nieuwe Waterweg gives the Port of Rotterdam its deep-water access to the North Sea.

In 2005 Shanghai Port Management Department reported that its Shanghai port became the world's largest cargo port, processing cargo topping 443 million tons and surpassing Singapore's port.

During its history the PNGDF has sent 400 troops to assist the Vanuatu government put down a secessionist revolt in 1980 and was called out in aid to the civil power in Port Moresby in 1983.

As reflected by the cancellations of Sunset Beach and Port Charles, it can sometime be more beneficial for a broadcasting network to return a timeslot to its local stations than to keep on the air a soap opera with disappointing ratings.

Most of its traffic was between Khartoum and Port Sudan.

Suriname is represented in Barbados through its embassy in Port of Spain, ( Trinidad and Tobago ).

Isaka Dry Port, a small town and station on the Mwanza Line at its intersection with the paved highway to Kigali.

* May 20 – Pan-American Airways begins trans-Atlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York.

Benjamin Franklin had put forth the idea of such a meeting the year before but was unable to convince the colonies of its necessity until the British placed a blockade at the Port of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party in 1773.