Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Tuesday, 28th June 2005 by Alex Turnbull
This is brilliant, hundreds of sea-vessels of all shapes and sizes zipping around in Victoria harbour, Hong Kong. Scroll around to see just how many of them there are! Victoria Harbour is one of the busiest ports in the world, with an average of 220,000 ships visiting the harbour each year.
Apparently the container port in Hong Kong is the busiest in the world. There's some weird looking cargo transporter things, and you can also see one of them being tugged (check out the guy doing the u-turn too!).
There's also a massive cargo ship, and even an airplane in this mega-harbour!
As usual, loads more great info about Victoria harbour is available on Wikipedia 🙂
Thanks to Nels Nelson and others.
About the author
Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
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What are these weird white things, here?
You mean the breakwaters?
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And this? What do my western eyes see here?
aaron: it looks like it’s a dry dock that was built offshore for lack of enough flat space on land. For the same reason, the new airport was built in 1998 on a man-made island. You can see it here: View Placemark Here’s a great interactive xite explaining how it was built: http://media.dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/airport/interactive/interactive.html The old airport was also built on water. It looks like it is now used as a part of the port, but it’s still quite obvious it used to be an airport: View Placemark
floating drydock
check out the suspension bridge http://tinyurl.com/7o3nr