Welcome to the second installment of Marine Gallery, a new monthly segment on our blog.
Each month staff members of MarineTraffic will select five interesting images submitted by our contributors. These could be images of vessels, ports or lighthouses from anywhere in the world.
We encourage everyone to submit photos by signing up on the MarineTraffic site and taking advantage of the easy to use upload process.
This photo was taken by Orestis Panos off the west coast of Peloponissos in Greece. The coast includes the longest undeveloped and most beautiful sand beaches in Greece. It’s a stretch of sea very popular with cruise ships that are visiting nearby Olympia, the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games. The vessel in the image is the Iris, a Greek flagged, pleasure craft.Landsort, is a Swedish village and a lighthouse on the island of Öja. The tower was built in 1689, with an upper conical iron section added in 1870. Open fires have been lit here since a long time ago.Landsort traditionally marks the southernmost point of the Stockholm archipelago. Today the Swedish Maritime Administration owns and runs the lighthouse.This photo of the Grand Ace10, a 46,159 -dwt chemical tanker, was taken by photographer Owen Foley off the coast of Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast in South East Queensland, Australia. Owen has contributed more than 2,000 photos to MarineTraffic, including many fantastic aerial shots such as this one.The CMA GGM Titan, a 2009-built container vessel, was captured by photographer Christian Schmarje in Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the shore of the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe River. French company CMA CGM is one of the largest container shipping firms in the world.This photo of the Rachel Maree was taken by Lester Hunt in Point Lonsdale, a coastal township on the Bellarine Peninsula, in Victoria, Australia. It is situated on a dangerous stretch of water that connects Port Phillip Bay with the Bass Strait. Port Phillip Bay is the gateway to Melbourne, Victoria’s capital and Australia’s second largest city.
If you would like to be featured in the Marine Gallery don’t forget to upload your photos on MarineTraffic.
