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Port Arthur, Tasmania
Port Arthur, Tasmania: historic former convict penal settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, founded 1830, closed 1877, renamed Carnarvon, later a World Heritage Australian Convict Site and site of the 1996 massacre.
Port Arthur, Texas
Port Arthur, Texas: Gulf Coast city in Jefferson County, founded 1895 by Arthur Stilwell, incorporated 1898; population about 56,000. Oil refining city since Spindletop 1901, now home to the Sempra Port Arthur LNG export terminal (Phases 1 and 2, 26 Mtpa).
Port Augusta
Port Augusta is a port city at the head of Spencer Gulf in South Australia, founded in the 1850s as an outlet for wool, wheat, and minerals.
Port Authority Building (Antwerp)
The Port Authority Building, known in Dutch as the Havenhuis, is the Zaha Hadid-designed headquarters of the port of Antwerp, Belgium, a diamond-shaped glass extension atop a restored historic fire station, opened in 2016.
Port Authority Bus Terminal
The Port Authority Bus Terminal, opened in 1950, is the central hub for bus travel to and from New York City, handling over 200,000 riders a weekday.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, PANYNJ, is a bistate agency created in 1921 that runs the region's airports, bridges, tunnels, seaport, and PATH.
Port Blair
Port Blair, officially Sri Vijaya Puram since 13 September 2024, is the capital of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, founded 1789 by Archibald Blair, a British penal settlement from 1858 and site of the Cellular Jail.
Port Campbell National Park
Port Campbell National Park: 24.24 km² Victorian national park on the Shipwreck Coast along the Great Ocean Road, protecting the Twelve Apostles limestone stacks, Loch Ard Gorge and London Bridge; declared 1964, IUCN Category II, managed by GORCAPA since 2024.
Port Charlotte, Florida
Port Charlotte, Florida is an unincorporated CDP in Charlotte County, developed from the 1950s by GDC and the Mackle Brothers; 60,625 residents in 2020, aging population, heavy hurricane and flood exposure.
Port Chicago disaster
Port Chicago disaster: July 17, 1944 munitions explosion at Port Chicago Naval Magazine, California, killing 320; led to the Port Chicago 50 mutiny trial and 2024 Navy exoneration.
Port Everglades
Port Everglades (originally Lake Mabel) is a man-made deep-water seaport and inlet in Broward County, Florida, governed by Broward County as a self-funded enterprise. A top-three cruise homeport, leading container port, and South Florida's main energy seaport, with over $3 billion in planned 20-year investments.
Port Everglades power station
The Port Everglades power station is a natural gas-fired plant operated by Florida Power & Light in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, commissioned in April 2016 with about 1,250 MW of capacity.
Port F.C. (สโมสรฟุตบอลท่าเรือ)
Port F.C. (สโมสรฟุตบอลท่าเรือ) is a Thai League 1 football club from Khlong Toei, Bangkok, home of Bangkok Port. Plays at PAT Stadium; 2019 Thai FA Cup and two League Cup titles; 2021 AFC Champions League participant.
Port forwarding
Port forwarding, also called port mapping, is a network address translation technique that redirects inbound Internet traffic from a router to a specific device on a private network.
Port Fourchon, Louisiana
Port Fourchon, Louisiana: deepwater energy support port at the mouth of Bayou Lafourche, governed by the Greater Lafourche Port Commission (est. 1960), servicing over 95% of Gulf deepwater production and serving as LOOP's land base.
Port fuel injection
Port fuel injection (PFI) is a gasoline fuel delivery method that sprays fuel into each cylinder's intake port before the intake valve, displacing carburetors from the early 1980s.
Port Harcourt
Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, Nigeria, founded 1913 as a coal-export port; Nigeria's oil city hosting the NNPC refinery, Trans Niger Pipeline hub, and West Africa's largest concentration of petroleum company offices.
Port Hope conversion facility
The Port Hope conversion facility is a uranium conversion plant in Port Hope, Ontario, owned by Cameco and holding about 18 percent of world UF6 conversion capacity.
Port Huron Statement
Port Huron Statement: 1962 founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society, drafted by Tom Hayden in Port Huron, Michigan; source of 'participatory democracy' and key text of the 1960s New Left.
Port Isaac
Port Isaac (Porthysek) is a historic fishing village on the north Cornwall coast, first recorded in 1338, a Grade II conservation area of over 90 listed buildings, and the filming location of Doc Martin's Portwenn.
Port Jackson
Port Jackson, commonly called Sydney Harbour, is the drowned valley estuary at Sydney, New South Wales, named by Cook in 1770 and the site of the First Fleet's 1788 settlement at Sydney Cove.
Port Klang
Port Klang (Malay: Pelabuhan Klang), historically Port Swettenham, is Malaysia's largest port in Selangor, handling 15.14 million containers in 2025 and ranking 10th busiest in the world.
Port knocking
Port knocking is a network security technique in which a client makes connection attempts to a predefined sequence of closed ports, prompting a daemon to open a protected service port.
Port Loko District
Port Loko District is an administrative district in north western Sierra Leone, named for its principal town. It covers 4,666 km² and had 528,038 residents.
Port Louis
Port Louis (Port-Louis) is the capital, largest city, and only port of Mauritius on the island's northwest coast. Founded as a French colonial harbor from 1735 under Mahé de Labourdonnais, it handles nearly 99% of national trade and hosts the Aapravasi Ghat World Heritage Site.
Port Macquarie
Port Macquarie is a coastal city on the Hastings River, mid-north coast NSW, founded in 1821 as a secondary penal settlement under Captain Francis Allman; now a regional centre of about 48,000 people.
Port Moody
Port Moody is a city of about 35,000 in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, on Burrard Inlet. Named for Colonel Richard Moody, it was the original CPR western terminus (1879) and incorporated in 1913.
Port Moresby
Port Moresby, capital of Papua New Guinea since 1975, is the Pacific's largest city with about 400,000 residents in the 240 sq km National Capital District, facing informal settlement growth, housing shortfalls, and new transport and NRL 2028 development programs.
Port of Açu
The Port of Açu (Porto do Açu) is a privately owned port-industrial complex in São João da Barra, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, and the largest in Latin America.
Port of Algeciras
The Port of Algeciras is Spain's largest port by cargo volume, a major container transshipment hub on the Strait of Gibraltar handling over 100 million tonnes yearly.