Whois & Analysis for hollandamerica.com

Holland America Line is an American/British owned cruise line; a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc.

Originating in the Netherlands, the company is now based in Seattle, United States.

The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.

The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.

There are locks at each end to lift ships up to Gatun Lake, an artificial lake created to reduce the amount of excavation work required for the canal, above sea level, and then lower the ships at the other end.

The original locks are wide.

A third, wider lane of locks was constructed between September 2007 and May 2016.

The expanded canal began commercial operation on June 26, 2016.

The new locks allow transit of larger, Post-Panamax ships, capable of handling more cargo.

Alaska is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east; its most extreme western part is Attu Island; it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait.

To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas–the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean.

The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest.

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States.

Approximately half of Alaska's residents (the total estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.

Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance.

Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.

Mexico (modern Nahuatl), officially the United Mexican States, is a federal republic in the southern half of North America.

It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico.

Covering almost two million square kilometers (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the sixth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent nation in the world.

With an estimated population of over 120 million, it is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world while being the second most populous country in Latin America.

Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and a federal district that is also its capital and most populous city.

Other metropolises include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana and León.

A cruise ship or cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are a part of the experience, as well as the different destinations along the way, i.e., ports of call.

Transportation is not the only purpose of cruising, particularly on cruises that return passengers to their originating port (also known as a closed-loop cruise), with the ports of call usually in a specified region of a continent.

There are even "cruises to nowhere" or "nowhere voyages" where the ship makes 2–3 night round trips without any ports of call.