Crooked Harbour or Kat O Hoi () is a harbour at the northeast of

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

Hong Kong 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 Delt ...

. The harbour is connected to

Double Haven Double Haven or Yan Chau Tong () is a harbour enclosed by Double Island, Crescent Island and Crooked Island within the north-eastern New Territories of Hong Kong. It is known for its scenery and natural environment, and for the calm seas from ...

and the bigger sea of

Mirs Bay Mirs Bay (also known as Tai Pang Wan, Dapeng Wan, Dapeng Bay, or Mers Bay; ) is a bay in the northeast of Kat O and Sai Kung Peninsula of Hong Kong. The north and east shores are surrounded by Yantian and Dapeng New District of Shenzhen. Ping ...

. Crooked Island, also known as

Kat O Kat O () also named Crooked Island, is an island in Northeast Hong Kong. Administration Administratively, Kat O is part of North District. It is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. Geography Kat O is located in ...

, and several islands, including

Ap Chau Ap Chau (), also known as Robinson Island, with a size of 0.04 km² is an island in the Crooked Harbour, in the north-eastern New Territories of Hong Kong. It is located in Ap Chau Bay (; Ap Chau Hoi). Islets located close by include A ...

, form the harbour with the mainland

Islands

Islands of Crooked Harbour include: *

* Ap Chau Mei Pak Tun Pai * Ap Chau Pak Tun Pai *

Ap Lo Chun Ap Lo Chun () is a small island in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It is located in Ap Chau Bay () between Ap Chau () in the east and Sai Ap Chau in the west, with the islet of Ap Tan Pai Ap Tan Pai () is a reef in the New Territories of H ...

* Ap Tan Pai *

Ap Tau Pai Ap Tau Pai () is a small island between Yan Chau Tong and Crooked Harbour in the north-eastern New Territories of Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic ...

* Cheung Shek Tsui‎ * Fun Chau‎ *

* Lo Chi Pai‎ * Sai Ap Chau‎ * Siu Nim Chau‎ * Tai Nim Chau‎

Ecology

Wave-cut "benches" of 6 to 10 meters wide form along the sediment layers at Crooked Harbor and

Ping Chau Tung Ping Chau () is an island in Hong Kong, part of Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark. It is also known as Ping Chau (). ''Tung'' (, meaning ''east'') is prepended to the name at times so as to avoid possible confusion with ''Peng Chau'', ...

, which are uncommon elsewhere in Hong Kong's coastline. Eelgrasses discovered at Lai Chi Wo in 1977 were granted protection by the Agricultural and Fisheries Department of the Hong Kong government. ''

Periclimenes ''Periclimenes'', commonly known as glass shrimp or cleaner shrimp, is a commensal and often symbiotic genus of semi-transparent shrimp within the family Palaemonidae. Species of this large genus feature a wide variety of coloration and patterns, ...

demani'', a small species of shrimp, resides in this grass.

Historical event

On 8 June 1857, a British naval frigate encountered pirates at Crooked Harbor, 70 men leapt overboard and were massacred on land.

References

Ports and harbours of Hong Kong North District, Hong Kong {{HK-geo-stub