Great George Street is a street of the
Causeway Bay
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area, on
Hong Kong Island
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Hong Kong
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Name
The street was named after the street of the same name in Westminster, London, which is named after King
George II of Great Britain
, house = Hanover
, religion = Protestant
, father = George I of Great Britain
, mother = Sophia Dorothea of Celle
, birth_date = 30 October / 9 November 1683
, birth_place = Herrenhausen Palace,Cannon. or Leine ...
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Light pollution
In October 2008, an environmental organisation, Friends of the Earth, Hong Kong, released a result of online election about the "light pollution" emitted from the commercial building,
Windsor House, in this street. They found the intensity of the light is 10,000 lux, equivalent to the brightness of daylight.
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Causeway Bay
Roads on Hong Kong Island
Wan Chai District
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