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Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island in the 1860s HMS Tamar anchored off the naval dockyard in Victoria Harbour in 1905 View from the Sky100. The first reference to what is now called Victoria Harbour is found in Zheng He's sailing maps of the China coast, dated c.1425, which appear in the Wubei Zhi (A Treatise on Armament Technology), a comprehensive 17th-century military book.
The stack of the MV Coho releasing smoke at Victoria Harbour, 2005. Despite the small size of the watershed land area of the Victoria and Saanich Peninsulas, Victoria Harbour is an estuary. Some of the fresh water tributaries of the harbour include: Colquitz Creek Beaver Lake Elk Lake. O'Donnel Creek; Durrell Creek [78] Swan Lake Creek Swan Lake
During the early years, Victoria House was a fishing camp without electricity or telephones. In the 1920s, Charles Nickerson, Nathan's son, sold Victoria House to the Grisé brothers; they had operated The Royal Hotel (a four storey building with a dock c. 1903 and closed mid 1970s then demolished) across the channel on Royal Island. Fred ...
In 1982, the New World Group built a promenade along the waterfront around the New World Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon.In 2004, the Group announced it would spend HK$40 million to build the Avenue of Stars, a project supported by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, Tourism Commission, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Government and the Hong Kong Film Awards ...
Its principal routes carry passengers across Victoria Harbour, between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. The service is operated by the Star Ferry Company, which was founded in 1888 as the Kowloon Ferry Company, and which adopted its present name in 1898.
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From 1856 to 1860 the Legislature of the Colony of Vancouver Island met at Bachelor's Hall at Fort Victoria. [2] From 1860 to 1898 it was housed in the first permanent building at Legislative Hall or Legislative Council Court, a two-storey wooden building along with four other buildings (Land Office, Colonial Office, Supreme Court, and Treasury) known colloquially as "The Birdcages" because of ...
Harbourfront Landmark Entrance The Harbourfront Landmark alongside Victoria Harbour. The Harbourfront Landmark (Chinese: 海名軒; Cantonese Yale: Hói mìhng hīn) is a 70-floor 233 meters tall luxury residential skyscraper completed in 2001 located in Hung Hom in the Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong.