Antarctica's only harbour is at McMurdo Station.

Bayonne harbour is a stop over for yachts and boats crossing the Gulf of Biscay on their way from the UK to the Iberian Peninsula, the Atlantic or the Mediterranean.

The water in the inner harbour is clean and safe for swimming.

Diagnosis of vCJD can be supported by biopsy of the tonsils, which harbour significant amounts of PrPSc ; however, biopsy of brain tissue is the definitive diagnostic test.

It is an artificial harbour ( depth approximately, protected by a concrete mole ( length approximately 930 metres, width 100 metres, mole surface 93, 000 m2 ).

The city itself is built on a low bluff overlooking the harbour.

The city is situated on a massive natural harbour on the Eastern coast of Africa, with sandy beaches in some areas.

This description " eastman " ( from Norway ) has to be seen together with the description " westman " ( From Ireland / Scotland ) which is to be found in local place-names such as " Vestmanna-havn " i. e. " Irish-mens harbour " in the Faroe Isles, and " Vestmannaeyjar " i. e. " Irish-mens islands " in Iceland.

Vuosaari harbour is the largest container port after completed in 2008.

It is the present day main harbour area of the City of Vancouver beyond Stanley Park.

The central apex figure of Truth is popularly known as Glasgow's Statue of Liberty, because of its close resemblance to the similarly posed, but very much larger, statue in New York harbour.

The name " Hong Kong ", literally meaning " fragrant harbour ", is derived from the area around present-day Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island, where fragrant wood products and fragrant incense were once traded.

A harbor or harbour ( see spelling differences ), or haven, is a place where ships, boats, and barges can seek shelter through stormy weather, or else are stored for future use.

Although the world's busiest port is a hotly contested title, in 2006 the world's busiest harbour by cargo tonnage was the Port of Shanghai.

Today a fractured seawall is all that remains of what might have become a magnificent harbour.

The Berghaven is a small harbour on the Nieuwe Waterweg where the Rotterdam and Europort pilots are based.

This small harbour is only for the use of the pilot service, government vessels and the Hoek van Holland lifeboat.

There are two railway stations, Hoek van Holland Strand, which is at the end of the line and closest to the beach and Hoek van Holland Haven, which is close to the town centre, adjacent to the ferry terminal and the small harbour, the Berghaven.

It is a deep natural harbour and is known as " The Queen of the Arabian Sea ".

Main pinisi traditional harbours is Sunda Kelapa in Jakarta and Paotere harbour in Makassar.

The Kingston port is situated in the Kingston Harbour which is the 7th largest natural ( i. e. not man made ) harbour in the world.

The harbour lies to the east of the foundation site at the original citadel on a hill overlooking a peninsula protecting the harbor on the south, where now are located the Quai de la Citadelle and the Jettée de la Citadelle.

The harbour had two large basins, now almost choked with sand.

The decline of sea otters followed a decline in harbour seal and Steller sea lion populations, the killer whale's preferred prey, which in turn may be substitutes for their original prey, now decimated by industrial whaling.

In 1876, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born in the city, which by now had become a bustling city with mosques, temples, courthouses, paved streets and a magnificent harbour.

Philip now pressed his advantage in northeastern Normandy, where he conducted a raid at Dieppe, during which he burnt the English ships in the harbour, repulsing an attack by Richard at the same time.

Owing to its lower cost and less wind exposure, shipboard, airport surface, and harbour surveillance radars now use this in preference to the parabolic antenna.

* The great flood in the river Periyar in what is now Kerala India which lead to the river changing its course, closing of the Pattanam ( Muziris ) harbour, opening up of Cochin ( Kochi ) harbour submersion of some islands and birth of some new islands.

By Hellenistic times, the city had moved to a new site south of what is now Bat Galim because the port's harbour had become blocked with sand.

Ptolemy, only thirteen years old at that time, had set up a throne for himself on the harbour, from where he watched as on September 28, 48 BC, Pompey was murdered by one of his former officers, now in Ptolemaic service.

Jacques Cartier left his main ships in a harbour close to Stadacona, and used his smallest ship to continue up-river and visit Hochelaga ( now Montreal ) where he arrived October 2, 1535.

The Tsamadou mansion on the left-hand side of the harbour as one enters is now a Maritime Academy.

The harbour railway station, now unused, is gradually succumbing to nature.

The Pent Stream now runs through a culvert from the fire station, at the junction of Radnor Park Road, Park Farm and Pavilion Road, until it reaches the inner harbour.

Remains of a quay, dating to the 17th century, were discovered under what is now a public car park, between the Old High Street and the railway viaduct, adjacent to the current harbour.

Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.

In Viking times the anchorage where Stromness now stands was called Hamnavoe, meaning " peaceful " or " safe harbour ".

The remains of a tower on the end of the harbour are all that can be seen now of the much taller building which was part of the overhead equipment which used to convey the local stone from where it was quarried to boats in the harbour.

Because of this, there are few fishing boats remaining in the harbour these days, which is now mainly home to yachts.

The recorded history of the village dates back nearly 2000 years, when the Romans constructed a fort at Fectio ( now Vechten ) with a harbour facing the river Rhine, which marked the border of the Roman Empire.

This is now a rare skill, and most harbour masters cannot locate their harbour's marker.

( LV Owers now a wreck in Tel Aviv harbour ).

The project is now known informally as " Smeaton's Harbour ", but despite the name his involvement was limited and occurred more than 30 years after work on the harbour commenced.