Morrison Hill ( or ) is an area and the location of a former hill between

Wan Chai Wan Chai is situated at the western part of the Wan Chai District on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. Its other boundaries are Canal Road, Hong Kong, Canal Road to the east, Arsenal Street to the west and Bowen Road to th ...

and Happy Valley, on

Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island is an Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, island in the southern part of Hong Kong. Known colloquially and on road signs simply as Hong Kong, the island has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km ...

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 ...

History

The hill was at the seashore until the

Praya East Reclamation Scheme Praya East Reclamation Scheme () was a large scale land reclamation project in Colonial Hong Kong lasting from 1921 to 1931 under Sir Catchick Paul Chater.

in the 1920s, which used its constituent rock/earth to reclaim land from the harbour, extending the shoreline away from the area. This major operation took most of the decade and to carry away the rock and soil, temporary railway tracks were laid, running along Bowrington Canal (present day Canal Road), which was covered over for the purpose. The hill was named for Protestant missionary and linguist Dr Robert Morrison who travelled through the region as part of the Morrison Education Society.

Features

Today, the centre of the area is occupied by the Morrison Hill Swimming Pool and several secondary schools, within a circular street, Oi Kwan Road (). A main road, Morrison Hill Road (), runs along the east side of the area. The

Queen Elizabeth Stadium The Queen Elizabeth Stadium is an indoor sport facility on the Morrison Hill in Wan Chai, on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. First opened in 1980, it has a 3,500-seat arena, gymnasia, squash and badminton courts, and a multi-purpose hall. ...

and the

Tang Shiu Kin Hospital Tang Shiu Kin Hospital () is a community hospital on Morrison Hill in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It was opened in 1969 to replace the Eastern Public Dispensary and other clinics on Hong Kong Island. The hospital merged administr ...

are on its southern fringe. There is also a skatepark near the children's playground to the south-east.

Facilities along Oi Kwan Road

Amenity facilities include: *

* Morrison Hill Swimming Pool Medical establishments include: *

* Tang Chi Ngong Specialist Clinic * MacLehose Dental Centre Educational institutions include: * Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Morrison Hill) (with the headquarters of Vocation Training Council by its side), * Lady Trench Training Centre *

Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Government Secondary School Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Government Secondary School (鄧肇堅維多利亞官立中學) was founded by the Hong Kong Government in 1933. Named the Junior Technical School (初級工業學校) initially, and then the Victoria Technical School (維 ...

* Sheng Kung Hui Tang Shiu Kin Secondary School Other major facilities include: * The Scout Association of Hong Kong Regional Headquarters * Tang Shiu Kin Social Service Centre * Ammar Mosque and Osman Ramju Sadick Islamic Centre Residential building includes: * Oi Kwan Court

References

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