Marinas

Location: Fontvieille district, western Monaco, on land reclaimed from the sea from the 1970s

Location: North Sound, the northeastern anchorage of Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands

Location: Lote A-18 De la Darsena, Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico, at the inner end of the harbour IGY and Dockwalk both give as 22.885 N, 109.910 W

Governance: owned by Los Angeles County, managed by the County Department of Beaches and Harbors (DBH), with individual basins run under long-term ground leases by more than twenty private operators, yacht clubs and apartment management groups

Location: 92-100 Waipahe Place, Kapolei, on Oahu's leeward coast within the Ko Olina Resort, distinct from the resort's four man-made swimming lagoons

History: local planters offered the harbour to the Crown in 1725 for its hurricane shelter and near-invisibility from open water; the modern dockyard was built out in phases from the 1740s to the 1850s, with over 75 percent of the skilled labour force enslaved Africans

Location: Cesme, Izmir Province, Turkey, on the Cesme peninsula facing the Greek island of Chios across a narrow strait

Location: Port of Valencia, Spain, immediately south of Malvarrosa beach and about 10 minutes from Valencia city centre

Location: former Fort Sherman, inside the San Lorenzo Protected Area, Colon Province, Panama, at 9.37165 N, 79.94972 W, on the Caribbean side of the Panama Canal entrance