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Hung Hom Ferry Pier () is a
ferry
A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi ...
pier
image:Brighton Pier, Brighton, East Sussex, England-2Oct2011 (1).jpg, Seaside pleasure pier in Brighton, England. The first seaside piers were built in England in the early 19th century.
A pier is a raised structure that rises above a body of ...
in
Hung Hom,
Kowloon
Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...
,
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 ...
. It is at the reclaimed
Hung Hom Bay
Hung Hom Bay was a bay in Victoria Harbour, between Tsim Sha Tsui and Hung Hom in the southeast of Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong.
Since 1994, parts of the bay were reclaimed, and by 2019 it had been completely extinguished. All of present-da ...
at the south of Lily Mansion (Phase 9),
Whampoa Garden
Whampoa Garden () is the largest private housing estate in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was built on the site of the former Whampoa Dockyards by Hutchison Whampoa Property. The urban design of the estate incorporates concepts inspired by ...
.
History
The original pier, opened in 1979 using
Streamline Moderne
Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design ...
design from the Star Ferry terminals at Central and Tsim Sha Tsui, was located near the
Hung Hom Station
Hung Hom () is a railway station in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is an interchange station between the and the domestic services of the MTR network, as well as the southern terminus of cross-border through-trains to mainland China ...
, close to the current position of Metropolis Tower. In 1988, the pier was temporarily relocated to the seaside of
Hunghom Bay Centre to cope with Hung Hom Bay
Reclamation
Reclaim, reclaimed, reclaimer, reclaiming or reclamation means "to get something back".
It may refer to:
* Land reclamation, creating new land from oceans, riverbeds, or lake beds
* Dedesertification, reversing of the land degradation in arid ...
Project. When the project was completed in 1991, the pier was moved to the current location.
It opened in March 1991.
Ferry routes
*East berth
**Hung Hom -
North Point
North Point is a mixed-use urban area in the Eastern District, Hong Kong, Eastern District of Hong Kong. Located in the northeastern part of Hong Kong Island, the area is named after a cape between Tin Hau, Hong Kong, Causeway Bay and Tsat Ts ...
(operated by
Sun Ferry)
*West berth
**Hung Hom -
Central
Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object.
Central may also refer to:
Directions and generalised locations
* Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...
(operated by
Fortune Ferry
Fortune Ferry Company Ltd is a ferry operator in Hong Kong. It is based in North Point.
Routes
The company operates the following ferry routes:
* Tuen Mun to Tung Chung, Sha Lo Wan and Tai O
* North Point to Kwun Tong and Kai Tak
* Central to H ...
)
Public Transport Interchange
The former Hung Hom Ferry Pier Public Transport Interchange (), a large
bus terminus
A bus terminus is a designated place where a bus or coach starts or ends its scheduled route. The terminus is the designated place that a timetable is timed from. Termini can be located at bus stations, interchanges, bus garages or bus stops. Te ...
outside the pier, was replaced by the Hung Hom (Hung Luen Road) Public Transport Interchange (), located inside the nearby
Kerry Hotel. MTR
Whampoa station
Whampoa () is the western terminus of the of the MTR in Hong Kong. It is located in Hung Hom, Kowloon City District within the developed area of Whampoa Garden immediately adjacent to the stern of '' The Whampoa'', a symbol of identity for the ...
exit C2.
References
External links
* Ng Yuk-hang (31 March 2011)
"End of the line for Hung Hom ferry routes" ''
South China Morning Post
The ''South China Morning Post'' (''SCMP''), with its Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Morning Post'', is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. Founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remained ...
'', p. C1.
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Transport infrastructure completed in 1965
Transport infrastructure completed in 1988
Transport infrastructure completed in 1991
Piers in Hong Kong
Hung Hom
Victoria Harbour
Star Ferry
1865 establishments in Hong Kong
Streamline Moderne architecture in Hong Kong