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Portland Harbour, Venue for 2012 Olympic sailing events
Portland Harbour, Venue for 2012 Olympic sailing events. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Portland Harbour, Venue for 2012 Olympic sailing events
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- Josh Wildman
HARBOUR AND BAY
Weymouth & Portland
A sheltered harbour and open bay refined into Britain’s Olympic sailing venue.
Scroll to read the water through time
Portland Harbour offers protected water while Weymouth Bay opens to the Channel.
Together they provide a rare choice between controlled inner courses and exposed offshore racing.
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WORKING AND NAVAL WATER
A harbour built for other purposes
The harbour’s breakwaters and deep-water history were not created for sport.
Sailing later inherited a large protected basin shaped by engineering, defence and commercial navigation.
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THE NEW VENUE
An academy gives the shore a focus
The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy brought launching, race management and athlete facilities together.
By 2008 the venue built for international competition was complete.
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The Rodwell Trail - Weymouth To Portland- 2012 Olympic Sailing Venue Under Construction. (3561886055)
The Rodwell Trail - Weymouth To Portland- 2012 Olympic Sailing Venue Under Construction. (3561886055). This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- The Rodwell Trail - Weymouth To Portland- 2012 Olympic Sailing Venue Under Construction. (3561886055)
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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- Josh Wildman
2012
The Olympic fleets arrive
Weymouth and Portland hosted the sailing programme of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Different classes used the harbour and bay as distinct course areas within one coordinated event.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Weymouth & Portland is recorded at 50.570° N, 2.440° W as a coastal open venue. A course drawn here is temporary: wind, current, shore and marks determine the water that sailors actually meet.
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Portland Harbour, Venue for 2012 Olympic sailing events
Portland Harbour, Venue for 2012 Olympic sailing events. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Portland Harbour, Venue for 2012 Olympic sailing events
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Reviewed
- Josh Wildman
TODAY
An Olympic venue after the Games
The academy remains a training and event base rather than a temporary Olympic set.
The lasting achievement is the connection of high-performance sport with ordinary access to the same water.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Portland Harbour, Venue for 2012 Olympic sailing events
AOD.UK.WEYMOUTH-PORTLAND.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Rodwell Trail - Weymouth To Portland- 2012 Olympic Sailing Venue Under Construction. (3561886055)
AOD.UK.WEYMOUTH-PORTLAND.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Editorial record
Full UK edition. Historical claims are linked to the local, public and sporting records used to write the exhibition. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.