Port Arthur may refer to:
- Port Arthur naval base in Manchuria, now called Lüshunkou
- Port Arthur massacre (China) in the Sino-Japanese War in 1894
- Battle of Port Arthur, a sea battle in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904
- Siege of Port Arthur, a land battle in 1904
- Australia
- Port Arthur, Tasmania (Australia), the site of a historic convict settlement
- Port Arthur massacre (Australia), which occurred in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996
- United States
- Port Arthur, Texas, a city in the United States
- Port Arthur, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Canada
- Port Arthur, Ontario (Canada), a former city, now a part of Thunder Bay
- Port Arthur (electoral district) (Canada),
- Finland
- VIII District, Turku (Finland), aka Port Arthur, a district in Turku
Other
- Port Arthur, BattleTech Universe's fictional planet
Famous quotes containing the words port and/or arthur:
“In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.”
—Chester A. Arthur (18291886)