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Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong

Tuesday, 28th June 2005 by Alex

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.

Boats

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!).

Cargo Tug

There’s also a massive cargo ship, and even an airplane in this mega-harbour!

Container Ship

As usual, loads more great info about Victoria harbour is available on Wikipedia :-)

Thanks to Nels Nelson and others.

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6 Responses to 'Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong'

  1. 1. Winterfresh says: June 29th, 2005 at 12:05 am

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    What are these weird white things, here?

  2. 2. noknok says: June 29th, 2005 at 1:05 am

    You mean the breakwaters?

  3. 3. aaron says: June 29th, 2005 at 2:44 am

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    And this? What do my western eyes see here?

  4. 4. Didier says: June 29th, 2005 at 5:24 am

    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:
    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
    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:
    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  5. 5. guest says: June 29th, 2005 at 6:01 am

    floating drydock

  6. 6. matt says: June 29th, 2005 at 4:34 pm

    check out the suspension bridge
    http://tinyurl.com/7o3nr

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