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Hung Shing Yeh Beach
The Hung Shing Yeh Beach () is a beach on Lamma Island, Hong Kong. It is the most popular beach on Lamma Island. The beach is equipped with toilets, showers and changing rooms. It is also protected by shark net. The beach overlooks the Lamma Power Station. History On 11 March 1979, about 100 Vietnamese refugees aboard the ''Skyluck'' freighter jumped ship and swam to Lamma Island. About half of them were picked up at sea by police, while the other half mainly landed at Hung Shing Yeh Beach. They were all captured by the police. The beach building was completed by the Regional Council in 1997/1998. The new structure comprised changing rooms, toilets, a first aid room, a staff office, a catamaran store, a lifeguard lookout, and waste treatment facilities. Features * BBQ pits (9 nos.) * Changing rooms * Showers and toilets Transportation The beach can be reached by walking for about 30 minutes from the Yung Shue Wan Ferry Pier. See also * Beaches of Hong Kong *Lamma Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamma Island
Lamma Island, also known as Y Island or Pok Liu Chau or simply Pok Liu, is the third largest island in Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the Islands District. Name Lamma Island was named Lamma only because of a chart reading error by Alexander Dalrymple in the 1760s. He had acquired a Portuguese chart to the entrances to the Pearl River and, close to the west of the island, the Portuguese owner had written "Lama". Dalrymple misinterpreted that as the name of the island. However, it was a Portuguese notation as to the holding (consistency of the seabed from the point of view of anchoring there), which was (and is) mud – in Portuguese "lama". In all the early charts the name was spelled with only one "m". So the island acquired a British name by error and one that subsequently was sinicised by its name being rendered phonetically in characters ("Lam a" can mean "south fork" in Cantonese), with the original muddle being all but forgotten. At some point, things became fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leisure And Cultural Services Department
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), is a department in the Government of Hong Kong. It reports to the Culture, Sports & Tourism Bureau, headed by the Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism. It provides leisure and cultural activities for the people of Hong Kong, which was also one of the tasks of the former Urban Council, and Regional Council and Home Affairs Bureau. It manages various public facilities around Hong Kong including public libraries, swimming pools, and sports centres. The well-known Hong Kong Cultural Centre and Hong Kong Space Museum are among several museums also managed by the department. It was established in 2000 and its headquarters is in Shatin, New Territories. The department was previously headed by the Secretary for Home Affairs before July 2022. List of directors for LCSD * Thomas Chow Tat-ming (2000–2009) * Betty Fung Ching Suk-yee, JP (2009–2014) * Michelle Li Mei-sheung, JP (2014–2019) * Vincent LIU Ming-kwong, JP Fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae. Sediments settle in different densities and structures, depending on the local wave action and weather, creating different textures, colors and gradients or layers of material. Though some beaches form on inland freshwater locations such as lakes and rivers, most beaches are in coastal areas where wave or current action deposits and reworks sediments. Erosion and changing of beach geologies happens through natural processes, like wave action and extreme weather events. Where wind conditions are correct, beaches can be backed by coastal dunes which offer protection and regeneration for the beach. However, these natural forces have become more extreme due to climate change, permanently altering beaches at very rapid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamma Power Station
Lamma Power Station, informally known as Lamma Island Power Station, is a thermal power station and solar farm in Po Lo Tsui, Lamma Island, Hong Kong. With an installed capacity of 3,617 MW, the power station is the second largest coal-fired power station in Hong Kong after Castle Peak Power Station. Completed in 1982 for Hongkong Electric, the station provides power to Hong Kong Island and Lamma Island. It was later expanded several times. As of 2021, the total installed capacity of the power station was 3,617 MW, made up of 2,000 MW coal-fired units, 555 MW oil-fired gas turbine units, 1,060 MW gas-fired combined cycle units, and one 1.1 MW solar power system. Solar In 2010, HK Electric began installing a solar farm in Lamma Power Station with a capacity of 550 kW, with a cost of HK$23 million. The panels chosen uses 5,500 amorphous silicon photovoltaic modules, which HK Electric says performs better in the higher temperatures and tropical climate of Hong Kong. HK Electri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skyluck
The ''Skyluck'' was a 3,500-ton Panamanian-registered freighter that carried a cargo of 3,300 Chinese and Vietnamese boat people fleeing Vietnam four years after the fall of Saigon. The ship left Vietnam from the Mekong delta city of Bến Tre, on January 24 1979, and after a sea voyage entered Hong Kong harbour under the cover of darkness on 8 February 1979. It was discovered and ordered to set anchor by the Hong Kong Police. Thus, began a -month-long stalemate as the refugees waited on the ship for the Hong Kong government to decide their fate. The event turned into an international humanitarian incident, which was a symbol of a much larger problem: the estimated one million refugees who risked everything to flee Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Journey and Arrival in Hong Kong In the early hours of Wednesday 7 February 1979, ''Skyluck'' arrived in the then-British colony of Hong Kong unannounced. Hong Kong police did not detect the ship as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Council (Hong Kong)
The Regional Council (RegCo; ) was a municipal council in Hong Kong responsible for municipal services in the New Territories (excluding New Kowloon). Its services were provided by the Regional Services Department, the executive arm of the Regional Council. Its headquarters were located near Sha Tin station. History Technically, only Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and New Kowloon were within the purview of the Urban Council. But the Urban Services Department, the executive arm of the Urban Council, began servicing the New Territories with its establishment in 1953. Following public consultation, a Provisional Regional Council was established on 1 April 1985 under the auspices of the colonial Hong Kong Government, to provide for the New Territories what the Urban Council did for Hong Kong Island, New Kowloon and Kowloon. Like the Urban Council, the Regional Council was created in 1986 as an elected body comprising representatives from constituencies and district boards. In 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yung Shue Wan Ferry Pier
Yung Shue Wan Ferry Pier is a ferry pier located on the waterfront of Yung Shue Wan in Yung Shue Wan Main Street, Lamma Island, Hong Kong. There are two ferry routes provided in the pier. One is the service between Yung Shue Wan and Central, operated by Hong Kong & Kowloon Ferry. Another one is the service between Yung Shue Wan and Aberdeen via Pak Kok Tsuen, operated by Tsui Wah Ferry. History The Yung Shue Wan Public Pier was opened in 1964, but the facilities are very rudimentary, the piers are narrow and lack of lighting and complete equipment, which is not enough to cope with the large number of tourists. In view of this, the government planned in 1982 to build a ferry pier on the 0.44 hectare seabed next to the public pier, with two berthing locations and other supporting facilities. In 1983, the government planned to spend HK$66.5 million to improve various constructions on Lamma Island, one of which was to expand the Yung Shue Wan Pier and set aside HK$10 million in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaches Of Hong Kong
Hong Kong has a long coastline that is full of twists and turns with many bays and beaches. Many of them are well sheltered by mountains nearby, as Hong Kong is a mountainous place. As a result, large waves seldom appear at the bays, making them suitable for human swimming. However, with the increasing development and urbanisation of Hong Kong, water quality has worsened resulting in the closure of several beaches previously suitable for swimming. These include Approach Beach, Ting Kau Beach, Anglers' Beach, Gemini Beaches, Hoi Mei Wan Beach, Casam Beach and Lido Beach in Tsuen Wan. In 2011, Lido Beach, Casam Beach, Approach Beach and Hoi Mei Wan Beach were reopened following an improvement in water quality. About half of the beaches suitable for swimming in Hong Kong are managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), and are officially referred to as gazetted beaches. A number of other beaches are privately owned or not gazetted, but are nonetheless publicly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
