Harbor
A harbor or harbour , or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the
weather or are stored. Harbors can be man-made or natural. A man-made harbor will have sea walls or breakwaters and may require
dredging. A natural harbor is surrounded on most sides by land.
Harbors and
ports are often confused. A port is a man-made
coastal or riverine facility where
boats and
ships can load and unload. It may consist of quays,
wharfs,
jetties,
piers and
slipways with cranes or ramps. A port may have magazine buildings or warehouses for storage of goods and a
transport system, such as
railway,
road transport or
pipeline transport facilities for relaying goods inland.
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A
harbor or
harbour , or
haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the
weather or are stored. Harbors can be man-made or natural. A man-made harbor will have sea walls or breakwaters and may require
dredging. A natural harbor is surrounded on most sides by land.
Harbors and
ports are often confused. A port is a man-made
coastal or riverine facility where
boats and
ships can load and unload. It may consist of quays,
wharfs,
jetties,
piers and
slipways with cranes or ramps. A port may have magazine buildings or warehouses for storage of goods and a
transport system, such as
railway,
road transport or
pipeline transport facilities for relaying goods inland.
During the
D-Day operations of 1944, two artificial harbors were built just off the invasion
beaches.
Natural harbors
A natural harbor is a
landform where a body of water forms a harbor. Natural harbors have long been of great
strategic and economic importance. Many of the great cities of the world are located on a natural harbor.
Ice-free harbors
For harbors near the poles, being ice-free is an important advantage, ideally all-year round. Examples are
Murmansk ,
Petsamo ,
Hammerfest,
Vardų, and
Prince Rupert or
Halifax .
Notable harbors
The following places are large natural harbors:
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in the
Philippines- Rio de Janeiro, Guanabara Bay, in Brazil
- Bahia, Salvador, in Brazil
- Halifax in Canada
- Cork in the Republic of Ireland
- Falmouth in Cornwall, the United Kingdom
- Poole Harbour in Dorset, the United Kingdom
- Freetown Harbour in Sierra Leone
- Pearl Harbor, west of Honolulu, Hawaii
- Brofjorden, Sweden
- Oslofjord, Norway
Artificial harbors are frequently built for use as ports. The largest artificially created harbor is located in
Rotterdam,
The Netherlands.
Other notable harbors include:
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See also
A
marina is a port [i] within a well-sheltered harbour [i] where boat [i]s and yacht [i]s ar ...
, List of Marinas
