In fact it has almost as many people as Lamma, nine times its size and close to Hong Kong. Its average elevation is about 100 feet, and there are three villages.
Many other islands lie outside the British boundary. Of them I can say practically nothing, as I have never visited them, and there are no large-scale maps of them. They remain a rich field for enquiry and research in every direction.
In conclusion, I can only hope I have not bored you unduly; if I have, I can only say that having known and visited the islands for twenty years, I find them more interesting every year, and if I have interested some of you, I shall feel this afternoon has not been spent in vain.
9th August 1937
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NOTES
See J. Dyer-Ball's Things Chinese or Notes Connected with China fifth edition, revised by E.T.C. Werner (1925), re-issued by OUP, Hong Kong, 1983, pp. 297-8.
* Yuen Chau Tsai, ("Little Round Island"), where the residence of the District Officer was is now the home of the Secretary for District Administration. The adjacent anchorage was reclaimed a few years ago.
* Naikwuchau is now called Hei Ling Chau ("Happy Island"). This followed its early postwar lease to the Leprosy Mission (Hong Kong Auxiliary) which resulted in the change of name, intended to reflect the "healing" nature of the work and the improvement in the patients' lives.
* Now the Rural Committee Offices.
* Tai Ho at present uses for its name characters meaning "Big Oyster".
* The yamen is usually now called the Tung Chung Fort, or Tung Chung Walled City.
* At Tei Tong Tsai ("Little Pits").
* Ngong Ping (“High Plain").
* Dedicated to Yeung Hau Wong.
* Tsin Yue Wan at present uses for its name characters meaning "Fried Fish Bay".
* Now usually called Fan Lau ("Divided Streams”).
* This fort is known as Kai Yik Kok Fort (“Chicken's Wing Point"). On it, please see A.M. da Silva Fan Lau and its Fort, an Historical Perspective, in Vol. 8 (1968) of this Journal pages 82-95.
* Tai Long Wan ("Big Wave Bay").
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fact it has almost as many people as Lamma, nine times its size and close to Hong Kong. Its average elevation is about 100 feet, and there are three villages.
Many other islands lie outside the British boundary. Of them I can say practically nothing, as I have never visited them, and there are no large-scale maps of them. They remain a rich field for enquiry and research in every direction.
In conclusion, I can only hope I have not bored you unduly; if I have, I can only say that having known and visited the islands for twenty years, I find them more interesting every year, and if I have interested some of you, I shall feel this afternoon has not been spent in vain.
9th August 1937
I
NOTES
See J. Dyer-Ball's Things Chinese or Notes Connected with China fifth edition, revised by E.T.C. Werner (1925), re-issued by OUP, Hong Kong, 1983, pp. 297.8.
* Yuen Chau Tsai, (Little Round Island"), where the residence of the District Officer was is now the home of the Secretary for District Administration. The adjacent anchorage was reclaimed a few years ago.
* Naikwuchau is now called Hei Ling Chau ("Happy Island"). This followed its early postwar lease to the Leprosy Mission (Hong Kong Auxiliary) which resulted in the change of name, intended to reflect the "healing" nature of the work and the improvement in the patients' lives.
* Now the Rural Committee Offices.
"Tai Ho at present uses for its name characters meaning "Big Oyster".
"The yamen is usually now called the Tung Chung Fort, or Tung Chung Walled City.
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At Tei Tong Tsai ("Little Pits").
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Ngong Ping (“High Plain").
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Dedicated to Yeung Hau Wong.
"" Tsin Yue Wan at present uses for its name characters meaning
"Fried Fish Bay".
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Now usually called Fan Lau ("Divided Streams”).
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This fort is known as Kai Yik Kok Fort (“Chickens Wing Point"). On it, please see A.M. da Silva Fan Lun and its Fort, an Historical Perspective, in Vol. 8 (1968) of this Journal pages 82-95.
10 Tai Long Wan ("Big Wave Bay").
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