Where in the world ?

[bluemarble]

On 8/18/2021 at 5:41 AM, Essiesmom said:

And another of a different sail-by... should not be difficult:

 

 

I'm pretty sure this is the Harvard Arm of College Fjord, Alaska.

 

My research tells me from left to right this view is showing us Bryn Mawr, Smith and Harvard Glaciers. Vassar and Wellesley Glaciers are out of view to the left. The Yale Arm of the fjord with Yale Glacier is out of view to the right.

[Essiesmom]

1 hour ago, bluemarble said:

 

I'm pretty sure this is the Harvard Arm of College Fjord, Alaska.

 

My research tells me from left to right this view is showing us Bryn Mawr, Smith and Harvard Glaciers. Vassar and Wellesley Glaciers are out of view to the left. The Yale Arm of the fjord with Yale Glacier is out of view to the right.

Yes, this is College Fjord.  

[Starboardhome]

Another one from the "Sail By" location list.....viewed from a Princess Cruise ship, September 2016.

[sfred]

On 8/19/2021 at 1:31 AM, exlondoner said:

Here is a place off the previous list that I visited many years ago. It used to be very popular with U.K. visitors, so I'm surprised we haven't had it already.

 

This one is Aghios Nikolaos, Crete in Greece.

[exlondoner]

It certainly is.

[bluemarble]

11 hours ago, Starboardhome said:

Another one from the "Sail By" location list.....viewed from a Princess Cruise ship, September 2016.

 

This one had me puzzled for quite a while. That distinctive peak shouldn't be hard to locate on our list of sail-by locations. I eventually found what looked like a pretty good match for that peak to Mount Saint Elias on the Alaska/Yukon border. But then I figured that was a dead end since maps locate that mountain at the end of Taan Fjord off Icy Bay, Alaska neither of which are on our list.

 

I didn't realize there is a location on our list that offers this view of Mount Saint Elias. The aha moment came when I found images which are very good matches to this photo described as showing Mount Saint Elias from Yakutat Bay.

 

I'm going with Yakutat Bay, Alaska for this one.

[Starboardhome]

Correct!. It is indeed Mount Saint Elias viewed from Yakutat Bay, Alaska, en-route to  Hubbard Glacier. This really is a spectacularly beautiful part of the world.

[rafinmd]

I'll try a couple. The first is a "sail-by" that may almost be cheating:

 

 

The other is an actual location that I think Cunard has visited:

 

 

Roy

[sfred]

8 hours ago, Starboardhome said:

Correct!. It is indeed Mount Saint Elias viewed from Yakutat Bay, Alaska, en-route to  Hubbard Glacier. This really is a spectacularly beautiful part of the world.

 

It certainly is!  I have a photo of Yakutat Bay also, in the distance beyond and taken from QE on the way out from Hubbard Glacier.  After an earlier clear blue sky and sunshne, it was starting to become overcast.

 

[bluemarble]

Something tells me two of the photos that haven't been identified yet are the same place. The other happens to be a port we've seen before on this thread, but of course that's no problem. We've certainly had plenty of repeats already (including quite a few repeats that I've submitted). It's good to have you back in the game, Roy. Since I've already identified a photo today, I'll wait until tomorrow my time to explain further if any of the photos remain unidentified then.

 

By the way, according to my count, the next new location (soon to be identified) will be number 550 on our list of ports we've seen on this thread.

[sfred]

10 hours ago, rafinmd said:

The other is an actual location that I think Cunard has visited:

 

 

Roy

Thanks @rafinmd. This is Saint John, NB, Canada, at the intersection of Princess and Water Streets.  As @bluemarbleindicated, we've seen this port way back in post #2175.  But repeats with new perspectives are always welcome.  Mrs. sfred and I had a very nice pub lunch on Princess St. during our QM2 call there on 3 July 2018.

 

 

 

[bluemarble]

14 hours ago, rafinmd said:

I'll try a couple. The first is a "sail-by" that may almost be cheating:

 

 

Now that it's "tomorrow" where I am, we know this one is Glacier Bay from @rafinmd's recent post on the "Daily sunrise photo" thread. This photo appears here because of @sfred inviting him on that other thread to post it here. I would have left this for someone else to pick up on that trail but here's the deal ...

 

On 8/18/2021 at 5:41 AM, Essiesmom said:

Well, here goes post #101 for me.  This is on the sail-by list, just not what you expect to see...

 

 

I only figured out yesterday afternoon that this earlier photo from @Essiesmom is also Glacier Bay. I thought it might be, based on the hint that this is "not what you expect to see" at Glacier Bay, but proving that was easier said than done.

 

There doesn't appear to be a glacier in this photo but in fact there is. I believe what we are looking at here is the dark terminus of Grand Pacific Glacier located at Glacier Bay. Out of view to the left would be the more conventional-looking Margerie Glacier.

 

Submitted as the 550th Cunard port/destination identified on this thread based on both of these photos is Glacier Bay, Alaska.

[sfred]

56 minutes ago, bluemarble said:

Submitted as the 550th Cunard port/destination identified on this thread based on both of these photos is Glacier Bay, Alaska.

 

Thanks @bluemarble.  Apologies @rafinmd - I hadn't known that @Essiesmomhad also posted Glacier Bay.  That photo was unidentified when I suggested reposting your sunrise photo.  Our QE trip in 2019 didn't enter Glacier Bay, so I didn't have first-eye knowledge of what the area looked like.

 

@bluemarble, not that it matters a great deal, but I think we're now up to 551 ports.  Back in post #3766, you mentioned that Geirangerfjord was 545, which was also the case in my port text analytics data set.  Since then we've had:

 

546 Hjorundfjord

547 Tracy Arm

548 College fjord

549 Aghios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece

550 Yakutat Bay

551 Glacier Bay

 

[sfred]

I guess I have done this cruise-by before, although it has always been night time after departing the nearby Cunard port to the west.  Photo is public domain from wikimedia commons.

 

[Essiesmom]

8 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

Now that it's "tomorrow" where I am, we know this one is Glacier Bay from @rafinmd's recent post on the "Daily sunrise photo" thread. This photo appears here because of @sfred inviting him on that other thread to post it here. I would have left this for someone else to pick up on that trail but here's the deal ...

 

 

I only figured out yesterday afternoon that this earlier photo from @Essiesmom is also Glacier Bay. I thought it might be, based on the hint that this is "not what you expect to see" at Glacier Bay, but proving that was easier said than done.

 

There doesn't appear to be a glacier in this photo but in fact there is. I believe what we are looking at here is the dark terminus of Grand Pacific Glacier located at Glacier Bay. Out of view to the left would be the more conventional-looking Margerie Glacier.

 

Submitted as the 550th Cunard port/destination identified on this thread based on both of these photos is Glacier Bay, Alaska.

Yes indeed.  That slightly sneaky entry is the Grand Pacific Glacier .  EM

[bluemarble]

5 hours ago, sfred said:

@bluemarble, not that it matters a great deal, but I think we're now up to 551 ports.

 

Thank you for your audit of my port count, @sfred. Quite right. Somehow I had managed to lose track of my own recently added Sognefjord, Norway. I'm back in agreement at 551 ports identified so far.

 

If anyone is still looking for inspiration for port photos to contribute, here's our updated list of unseen Cunard ports pending identification of @sfred's latest contribution. I've added Hardangerfjord which appears on a Cunard itinerary to the additional cruise-by call section at the bottom of this list.

 

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

 

Abaco, Bahamas
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Aden, Yemen
Agadir, Morocco
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
Homer, Alaska
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
Skagen, Denmark
Skarsvag, Norway
Skopelos, Greece
Skyros, Greece
Sochi, Russia
St Malo, France
St Pierre, Newfoundland
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
Alert Bay, Alaska
Bella Bella, Alaska
Columbia Glacier, Alaska
Cook Inlet, Alaska
Endicott Arm, Alaska
Katchemak Bay, Alaska
Kenai Fjords, Alaska
Kings Bay, Alaska
Port Nellie Juan, Alaska

 

Australia/New Zealand
Tasman Peninsula TAS, Australia
Wilsons Promontory VIC, Australia
Marlborough Sound, New Zealand

 

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 May, Scotland
Isle of Mull, Scotland

[exlondoner]

Thank you for reprinting this. Can we add the Isle of Arran, after QE circled it last week? Or have we had it?

[bluemarble]

1 hour ago, exlondoner said:

Thank you for reprinting this. Can we add the Isle of Arran, after QE circled it last week? Or have we had it?

 

Absolutely. We have not yet had the Isle of Arran.

 

We should also add the Isle of Islay which was on QE's itinerary last week. She spent one evening anchored there, so Isle of Islay might qualify as more than a cruise-by call.

 

QE was also anchored off the Isle of Mull another evening last week, so that might also qualify as more than a cruise-by call now. Although no one went ashore in either case, so perhaps not.

 

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

Edited August 21, 2021 by bluemarble

[rafinmd]

Thank you for the list @bluemarble.  Cunard is actually a secondary cruise line for me, although it's the only one where I've advanced to the top level of the loyalty scheme, thanks to their dual cruises or days yardstick.  I saw a number ports I've visited but none on Cunard.  A few of them have a Cunard connection and I'll start with those,  If you'll indulge me once the destination has been identified in adding the circumstances on how I got there.  Here's the first one:

 

 

Roy

[bluemarble]

On 8/21/2021 at 2:01 AM, sfred said:

I guess I have done this cruise-by before, although it has always been night time after departing the nearby Cunard port to the west.  Photo is public domain from wikimedia commons.

 

 

I'll go ahead and identify this one from @sfred today. This is one of the cruise-by calls from his home country. It's Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia.

[bluemarble]

We've now reached the one year anniversary for this thread. Congratulations and thanks to @Host Hattie for starting this thread and for everyone who has contributed to it this past year!

 

As we've discussed before, this is far and away the most active thread we've seen on this Cunard forum. Hard telling how much time I've spent on it this past year, but I've certainly spent well over 1000 hours on it. This thread has been a most enjoyable pastime for me and I've learned quite a bit about Cunard's history in the process.

[Host Hattie]

Good spot @bluemarble, thank you to you and everyone else who has contributed to keep this thread going to get to this first birthday 🎂.

I certainly never expected there to be enough interest to keep it going this long !

[Host Hattie]

@rafinmd I think that's Agadir Roy.

[rafinmd]

5 minutes ago, Host Hattie said:

@rafinmd I think that's Agadir Roy.

Right you are!  It was taken on a cruise on MSY Wind Star from Lisbon to Barbados after sailing Eastbound on QM2.

 

BTW, it isn't really a port or even a close sail by but has Bishop Rock ever come up on this thread?

 

Roy

[sfred]

7 hours ago, bluemarble said:

 

I'll go ahead and identify this one from @sfred today. This is one of the cruise-by calls from his home country. It's Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia.

 

Correct!  Wilsons Prom, as it is sometimes abbreviated, is the southernmost point of the Australia mainland.  It is a protected nature reserve and has quite attractive scenery.  The public domain photo was taken from Mount Bishop.  I must have passed by several times on Cunard trips when departing Mebourne for Sydney, but it has always been in the small hours of the night.  I might have noticed the lighthouse beacon, but more likely was asleep.