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Victoria Park Road
Victoria Park Road () is a road in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. Its western section between Gloucester Road and Island Eastern Corridor before the completion of Central–Wan Chai Bypass, served as a portion of Route 4. It starts at the junction of Route 1 and ends in Hing Fat Street. The road is 750 metres long and was built in 1972 by reclamation following the shoreline, along with the Cross-Harbour Tunnel. Its northern side abuts Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, while to its south is Victoria Park, after which it is named. In 2022, the section of harbourfront between the road and Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter was redeveloped and expanded, as part of the overall development of Victoria Harbour Victoria Harbour is a natural landform harbour in Hong Kong separating Hong Kong Island in the south from the Kowloon Peninsula to the north. The harbour's deep, sheltered waters and strategic location on South China Sea were instrumental in ... waterfront. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HK CWB 2 Tai Hang Elevated Road North
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resumed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
