Panorama of Balmoral Cruise Ship at the Admiralty Pier and Dover Harbour, Western Heights, Kent, UK

This snow-covered panorama of the Western Docks and English Channel was taken from the access road leading to the Commando Entrance of the Drop Redoubt on Saturday, 19th of December, 2009:



Also in view: the Fred Olsen Cruise Line's MS Balmoral Cruise Ship, the Victorian Clock Tower, Dover's RNLB 17-09 City of London II lifeboat rescue craft and Lifeboat Station, Crosswall Quay, Dolphin Hard Jetty, the old Hoverport, Lord Warden House (ex-Lord Warden Hotel and ex-World War II Royal Navy HMS Wasp shore station), the old Dover Marine railway station, Granville Dock, the Tidal Harbour and Tug Haven.

The barbed-wire fence of Drop Redoubt Road in the foreground leads to the Napoleonic Grand Shaft.

More information (including sources used) can be found on this photo's original webpage at:

Panorama of Balmoral Cruise Ship at the Admiralty Pier, Dover Harbour, Western Heights

Also see:

MS Balmoral Cruise Ship at Sunrise, Western Entrance, Dover Harbour

All photos are indexed under the MS Balmoral category label.

A Western Heights photo.

Click to see all Cruise Ship, Tug, and Workboat photos.

Clickable thumbnails of all Dover Harbour- and Western Heights-related photos from the main Panoramio Images of Dover website are available on this blog at Port of Dover Page and Western Heights Page (also linked to at the top below the blog title).

The main site Panoramio photos are each accompanied by a Google Earth satellite map. However, the images are smaller than those on the Images of Dover Blog and the captions are less well formatted.

John Latter / Jorolat

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