# Drop 'portland' colormap creation. It is done more than once and actual
# matplotlib do not like redefinitions.
diff --git a/src/pythonprop/voaAreaPlot.py b/src/pythonprop/voaAreaPlot.py
index a0bd789..a3bdd48 100644
--- a/src/pythonprop/voaAreaPlot.py
+++ b/src/pythonprop/voaAreaPlot.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ class VOAAreaPlot:
                     vg_files = [1],
                     data_type = 1,
                     time_zone = 0,
-                    color_map = 'portland',
+                    color_map = 'jet',
                     face_colour = "white",
                     filled_contours = False,
                     plot_contours = False,
@@ -145,8 +145,6 @@ class VOAAreaPlot:
         #    print "-180 < Latitude < 180.0, -90 < Longitude < 90"
         #    sys.exit(1)
 
-        portland = ListedColormap(["#0C3383", "#0b599b","#0a7fb4","#57a18f","#bec255","#f2c438","#f2a638","#ef8235","#e4502a","#d91e1e"])
-        plt.register_cmap(name='portland', cmap=portland)
         colMap = color_map
 
         projection = ccrs.PlateCarree()
@@ -498,8 +496,8 @@ def main(in_file, datadir=None):
         dest = "color_map",
         default = 'jet',
         choices = [ 'autumn', 'bone', 'cool', 'copper', 'gray', \
-                'hot', 'hsv', 'jet', 'pink', 'spring','summer', 'winter', 'portland' ],
-        help=_("COLOURMAP - may be one of 'autumn', 'bone', 'cool', 'copper', 'gray', 'hot', 'hsv', 'jet', 'pink', 'spring', 'summer', 'winter' or 'portland'.  Default = 'jet'"))
+                'hot', 'hsv', 'jet', 'pink', 'spring','summer', 'winter' ],
+        help=_("COLOURMAP - may be one of 'autumn', 'bone', 'cool', 'copper', 'gray', 'hot', 'hsv', 'jet', 'pink', 'spring', 'summer' or 'winter'.  Default = 'jet'"))
     """
     parser.add_argument("-n", "--interest",
         dest = "poi_file",
diff --git a/src/pythonprop/voaAreaPlotgui.py b/src/pythonprop/voaAreaPlotgui.py
index c001397..9f75acc 100644
--- a/src/pythonprop/voaAreaPlotgui.py
+++ b/src/pythonprop/voaAreaPlotgui.py
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ class VOAAreaPlotGUI:
               'pink': _('pink'),
               'spring': _('spring'),
               'summer': _('summer'),
-              'winter': _('winter'),
-              'portland': _('portland')}
+              'winter': _('winter')}
 
     def __init__(self,
             data_source_filename,
diff --git a/src/pythonprop/voaP2PPlot.py b/src/pythonprop/voaP2PPlot.py
index faf87e6..61fe9b9 100644
--- a/src/pythonprop/voaP2PPlot.py
+++ b/src/pythonprop/voaP2PPlot.py
@@ -136,8 +136,6 @@ class VOAP2PPlot:
 
         self.image_defs = self.IMG_TYPE_DICT[self.data_type]
         self.user_bands = user_bands
-        portland = ListedColormap(["#0C3383", "#0b599b","#0a7fb4","#57a18f","#bec255","#f2c438","#f2a638","#ef8235","#e4502a","#d91e1e"])
-        matplotlib.cm.register_cmap(name='portland', cmap=portland)
 
         if plot_groups[0]=='a':
             num_grp = self.df.get_number_of_groups()
@@ -375,8 +373,8 @@ def main(data_file, datadir=None):
         dest="color_map",
         default='jet',
         choices = [ 'autumn', 'bone', 'cool', 'copper', 'gray', \
-                'hot', 'hsv', 'jet', 'pink', 'spring','summer', 'winter', 'portland' ],
-        help=_("COLOURMAP - may be one of 'autumn', 'bone', 'cool', 'copper', 'gray', 'hot', 'hsv', 'jet', 'pink', 'spring', 'summer', 'winter' or 'portland'.  Default = 'jet'"))
+                'hot', 'hsv', 'jet', 'pink', 'spring','summer', 'winter' ],
+        help=_("COLOURMAP - may be one of 'autumn', 'bone', 'cool', 'copper', 'gray', 'hot', 'hsv', 'jet', 'pink', 'spring', 'summer' or 'winter'.  Default = 'jet'"))
 
     parser.add_argument("-o", "--outfile",
         dest="save_file",
diff --git a/src/pythonprop/voaP2PPlotgui.py b/src/pythonprop/voaP2PPlotgui.py
index e1c120b..0aca557 100644
--- a/src/pythonprop/voaP2PPlotgui.py
+++ b/src/pythonprop/voaP2PPlotgui.py
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ class VOAP2PPlotGUI:
               'pink': _('pink'),
               'spring': _('spring'),
               'summer': _('summer'),
-              'winter': _('winter'),
-              'portland': _('portland')}
+              'winter': _('winter')}
 
 
     def __init__(self, data_source_filename, parent = None, datadir=""):