# THE MAPPING OF HONG KONG
A. HONG KONG ISLAND & KOWLOON
(i) Not listed
(ii) 1/2400 scale (200 ft. to 1 inch) with
20 ft. contours
(iii) 8" to 1 mile (old series) no contours (4 sheets of Hong Kong Island, 3 sheets Kowloon/New Kowloon)
(iv) 4" to 1 mile (photo-reduction of (iii) above) (1 sheet Hong Kong Island, 1 sheet Kowloon/New Kowloon)
B. NEW TERRITORIES
(i) 1/1200 scale (100 ft. to 1 inch) with 10 ft. contours*
(ii) 1/4800 (400 ft. to 1 inch) with 50 ft. contours (25 ft. contours below 150 ft.)
60
7
2
139
1200 (approx) about 900 now available
(iii) 1/9600 (800 ft. to 1 inch) (photo-reductions of (ii) above)
C. WHOLE COLONY
(The maps listed below can be obtained from Messrs. Kelly & Walsh Ltd., Hong Kong or the Swindon Book Co., Ltd., Kowloon, or from Messrs. Edward Stanford Ltd., Long Acre, London, W.C.2.)
New Topographic maps:—
(1) 1/10,000 scale (series L884) (contour interval 50 ft)†
(2) 1/25,000 scale (series L882)
(contour interval 50 ft.)
100 (approx)
about 40 now available
10
62
22 sheets published at 28th February, 1969
20
(First sheets should be available in 1969)
* See Plate 12. † See Plate 13.