Another attraction is the local harbour, which features the Tolbooth, the town's tiny museum of local heritage.

Until 1784 most of the fortifications around Sevastopol were dedicated to the protection of the harbour entrance, the city itself and its naval base and were positioned close to these features.

The abbey ruin at the top of the east cliff is the town's oldest and most prominent landmark with the swing bridge across the River Esk and the harbour sheltered by the grade II listed east and west piers being other significant features.

The harbour wall, " The Cobb ", features in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, and in the film and novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, by local writer John Fowles.

Old Port Royal features a cruise ship pier extending from a reconstructed Chocolata Hole harbour and Fisher's Row, a group of cafes and shops on the waterfront.

It features a hotel, two group accommodations, three camp sites and a small yacht harbour.

The harbour area has seafood restaurants and features an anti-tsunami barrier with an observation floor on top that offers a panoramic view of the city and the surrounding area.

The suburb features harbour views, a few pockets of bushland, shops, restaurants and cafes, a harbour swimming pool with shark net.

The museum also features four other museum ships moored in the harbour outside: the ice breaker Sankt Erik ( launched 1915 ), the lightvessel Finngrundet ( 1903 ), the torpedo boat Spica ( 1966 ) and the rescue boat Bernhard Ingelsson ( 1944 ).

The harbour also features in the works Circular Quay, 1925, and The Bridge from the North Shore, 1932, reflecting her interest in elaborate patterns and the stark, dramatic contrasts offered by the wood cut.

It features " old-time " streets with higgilty piggilty paths, beaches and Cairnbulg harbour, built in the 1920s as a single pier.

The harbour features a 258 metre quay which is a popular area for fishing and short leisurely walks ( especially in the case of tourists to the town ).

The seafront at Seamill features a long sandy beach, as well as rocky outcrops including the harbour at Portencross.

Northbridge features an 18-hole harbour view golf course, soccer club, sailing club, marina, salt water baths, scout hall, girl guides, tennis courts, parks, ovals, local reserves and bike track.

The end of the 19th century witnessed a sharp recovery of the local economy with increasing international trade and the growth of the city harbour leading to increased exports of several products ( particularly during World War I when Spain was a neutral country ).

Concurrently, during a military operation in World War II, following a German air raid on the Italian harbour of Bari, several hundred people were accidentally exposed to mustard gas, which had been transported there by the allied forces to prepare for possible retaliation in the event of German use of chemical warfare.

It was a popular tourist spot with several guest houses, restaurants, cafes, several brick houses and a small harbour with a pier for small trading ships.

The harbour is particularly popular with Malmö's vibrant student community and has been the scene of several impromptu outdoor parties and gatherings.

The Grand Harbour, which has been used as a harbour since Roman times, has several extensive docks and wharves, as well as a cruise liner terminal.

The harbour was completed in 1895 and financed by Lord Robartes of Lanhydrock as a recompense to the fishermen for several disastrous pilchard seasons.

Kerch has a harbour on the Kerch Strait, which makes it a key to the Sea of Azov, several railroad terminals and a small airport.

Mammals which call these places home include the red fox, long-tailed weasel, mink, muskrat, woodchuck, several bat species, bottlenose dolphins, harbour porpoises and possibly river otters which are close to local extinction in Long Island with only an estimated 8 individuals thought to have recently migrated from Connecticut.

Also the advancing fleet engaging the harbour batteries suffered a loss of 500 men and several ships were heavily damage.

Steveston is now home to several museums and heritage sites, as well as a working harbour for fishing boats.

The town has several attractions including an award winning sand beach, a major harbour, the lighthouse museum, heritage centre and a variety of amenities and facilities.

From shops in the town and booths along the harbour, several boat companies operate, offering various packages which may include inter alia landing on at least one Farne, seeing seals and seabirds, and hearing a commentary on the islands and the Grace Darling story or scuba diving on the many Farnes Islands wrecks.

Parikía harbour is a major hub for Aegean islands ferries and catamarans, with several sailings each day for Piraeus, the port of Athens, Heraklion, the capital of Crete, and other islands such as Naxos, Ios, Santorini, and Mykonos.

Attractions include the Falkland Islands Museum, Government House – built in 1845 and home to the Governor of the Falkland Islands ( currently Nigel Haywood ) – and a golf course, as well as a whalebone arch, a totem pole, several war memorials and the shipwrecks in its harbour.

It has few natural predators, but may harbour several types of parasite ; the plumage is home to chewing lice and feather mites, while the large nests maintain a diverse range of mesostigmatic mites.

They captured several vessels in January 1722, then sailed into Ouidah harbour with black flags flying.

The runway was made by reclaiming land from the harbour and had been extended several times since its initial construction.

This was the first harbour to serve the china clay industry around St Austell and has featured in several films as it is home to a heritage fleet of sailing ships.

The harbour is a drowned valley ( ria ) formed at the end of the last ice age and is the estuary of several rivers, the largest being the Frome.

Poole Harbour has an area of approximately and is one of several which lay claim to the title of the world's largest or second largest natural harbour ( including Cork Harbour in Ireland and Halifax Harbour in Canada ).

The harbour and port are popular leisure boating locations, and several marinas and boat yards are located on the river.

On 8 April 1942 an Imperial Japanese force consisting of the light cruiser Tatsuta, destroyer Mutsuki and a troop transport ship Mishima Maru entered Lorengau harbour, and several hundreds of Japanese soldiers of the 8th Special Base Force, swarmed ashore onto Australia's mandated responsibility.

Its water remains an harbour for fishermen after several times of reclamation by the Hong Kong Government.

The harbour of Wyk hosts several mussel fishing boats.

Luanda has an excellent natural harbour ; the chief exports are coffee, cotton, sugar, diamonds, iron, and salt.

The important export products cash crops ( including cotton, maize, tobacco, sugar, coffee, tea, palm oil, and groundnuts ) and minerals had to be transported to the harbour towns for export.

Umkomaas, a small coastal town on the subtropical south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa was formed when a harbour was built in 1861 to export sugar.

In the 18th and the 19th Centuries Irvin's Bay was a working harbour for shipping sugar and other produce grown from nearby estates and the Bay House were shipped to England and France.

As a result of the sugar transport requirement, Zevenbergen got its railways, as well as the harbour located at the end of the " Mark " canal.

Mpulungu, 208 km from Kasama, is Zambia's only port, and its harbour is generally used to export bulky goods, such as sugar and cement, to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The history of the village is closely linked to sugar farming, and Charlotteville's deep water harbour was also of importance for the town's development.