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Hunter, Port

(Encyclopedia) Hunter, Port, or Newcastle Harbour, estuary of the Hunter River, New South Wales, Australia. It is 3 mi (4.8 km) long and 2 mi (3.2 km) wide. The coal-loading port of Newcastle, one of…

Ellesmere Port

(Encyclopedia) Ellesmere Port, town, Cheshire West and Chester, W central England. Ellesmere Port is located on the Manchester Ship Canal near its…

treaty port

(Encyclopedia) treaty port, port opened to foreign trade by a treaty. The term is usually confined to ports in those countries that formerly strongly objected to foreign trade or attempted altogether…

Port Republic

(Encyclopedia) Port Republic, village, NW Va., on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River. During the Civil War, on June 8–9, 1862, the last battle of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson's successful…

Port Royal

(Encyclopedia) Port Royal: see Annapolis Royal, N.S., Canada.

Port Royal

(Encyclopedia) Port Royal, former coastal city and port, S Jamaica. Situated on a deepwater harbor on the Caribbean shipping lanes between Spain and Panama, a settlement was established in the 1th…

Port-Royal

(Encyclopedia) Port-RoyalPort-RoyalFr. pôr-rwäyälˈ [key], former abbey of women, c.17 mi (27 km) W of Paris, founded in 1204. It was at first Benedictine, later Cistercian. In 1608 the abbess,…

Port Said

(Encyclopedia) Port SaidPort Saidsīd, sād, säēdˈ [key] or Bur SaidBur Saidb&oobreve;r [key], city (1986 pop. 469,533), NE Egypt, a port on the Mediterranean Sea at the entrance to the Suez Canal…

Port Sudan

(Encyclopedia) Port SudanPort Sudans&oomacr;dănˈ [key], city (1993 pop. 308,195), NE Sudan, on the Red Sea. The country's major seaport, it handles the bulk of Sudan's foreign trade. The city is…

Port Talbot

(Encyclopedia) Port TalbotPort Talbottôlˈbət [key], town (1981 pop. 40,078), Neath Port Talbot, S Wales, at the mouth of the Avon (Afan) River on Swansea Bay. Port Talbot is a popular seaside resort…