Other nearby attractions include the quarrying operation itself and the port called La Canal, from where salt is exported.

They thundered over a port called Basra, where the timber of broken ships clogged the streets while the mad sea methodically destroyed the town.

"Here are satellite photos taken over a period of several years of a sleepy little port called San Juan del Norte."

The voyage covered over 45,000 miles, but with the exception of Port Said, the ports called at were all part of the British Empire.

Younger ruby ports once called "vintage character" now have to be labeled by law in Portugal as ruby reserve.

Volissos has a port called "Limia" that connects the island with the island of Psara.

"Fifteen and a half kilometers due west," he said, "lies the port called Tengchah Jav."

A few years later (around 1980) he moved 100 miles south, to a small port called Ensenada.

The Noorderlicht is making its way down a long fjord in the north of Iceland to a port called Akureyri.

At the mouth of the North River grew the port called, in the vernacular of the day, The Manhattans.