Hung Hom Bay was a bay in

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 i ...

, between

Tsim Sha Tsui Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an list of areas of Hong Kong, urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hu ...

and Hung Hom in the southeast of

Kowloon Peninsula The Kowloon Peninsula is a peninsula that forms the southern part of the main landmass in the territory of Hong Kong, alongside Victoria Harbour and facing toward Hong Kong Island. The Kowloon Peninsula and the area of New Kowloon are collect ...

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 ...

. Since 1994, parts of the bay were

reclaimed Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new Terrestrial ecoregion, land from oceans, list of seas, seas, Stream bed, riverbeds or lak ...

, and by 2019 it had been completely extinguished. All of present-day

Tsim Sha Tsui East Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hung Hom Bay now east of Tsim ...

and

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 ...

on the MTR as well as the

Hung Hom Ferry Pier Hung Hom Ferry Pier () is a ferry pier in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is at the reclaimed Hung Hom Bay at the south of Lily Mansion (Phase 9), Whampoa Garden. History The original pier, opened in 1979 using Streamline Moderne design f ...

are on land reclaimed from the bay. The reclamation also buried several rocks, including

Rumsey Rock Rumsey Rock () was a rock in Hung Hom Bay, Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. Administratively it belonged to the Kowloon City District Kowloon City District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in the city of Kowloon. It ha ...

. The bay once came inland as far as the present-day interchange of the

West Kowloon Corridor West Kowloon Corridor is part of Route 5 in Hong Kong. Bypassing existing surface roads in West Kowloon, it connects Lai Chi Kok Road in Cheung Sha Wan with the Gascoigne Road Flyover near Yau Ma Tei. The highway was built in 4 phases: *Phase 1 ...

and the Hung Hom Bypass.

Education

* Hong Kong Community College (Hung Hom Bay campus) *

Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a public research university located in Hung Hom, Hong Kong near Hung Hom station. The University is one of the eight government-funded degree-granting tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Founded ...

*Ma Tau Chung Government Primary School（Hung Hom Bay） (馬頭涌官立小學（紅磡灣）)https://www.chsc.hk/psp2020/sch_detail.php?lang_id=1&sch_id=102&return_page=sch_list.php?lang_id%3D1%26search_mode%3D%26frmMode%3Dpagebreak%26district_id%3D6%26sort_id%3D-1 and http://www.mtchhb.edu.hk

Transportation

Facilities

*Fortune Metropolis *

Hong Kong Coliseum Hong Kong Coliseum, commonly known as the Hung Hom Coliseum, is a multi-purpose indoor arena, in Hung Hom Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong near Hung Hom station. It is in Yau Tsim Mong District. It was built by the Urban Council and inaugurated on 27 ...

*Hung Hom Promenade

Hotel

*Harbour Grand Kowloon *Harbour Plaza Metropolis * Kerry Hotel Hong Kong

Residential

Harbour Place Harbour Place () is a private housing estate in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. History Hunghom Peninsula Formerly called Hunghom Peninsula () and built on the reclaimed land of Hung Hom Bay, it was an HOS estate comprising 2,470 flats comple ...

Harbourfront Horizon Harbourfront may refer to: *Harbourfront (Toronto), a neighbourhood in Toronto **509 Harbourfront, Toronto streetcar route **Harbourfront Centre, cultural organization on the waterfront of Toronto *HarbourFront (Singapore), waterfront site in Singa ...

* Harbourview Horizon * The Harbourfront Landmark *

The Metropolis Residence ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...

* Royal Peninsula * Stars by the Harbour

References

External links

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