Sha Po () is a village located in the area of
Yung Shue Wan
Yung Shue Wan is the main population centre on Lamma Island, Hong Kong. It has a population of approximately 6,000.
Administration
Yung Shue Wan is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.
Features
The village is ...
on the North side of
Lamma Island
Lamma Island, also known as Y Island or Pok Liu Chau or simply Pok Liu, is the third largest island in Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the Islands District.
Name
Lamma Island was named Lamma only because of a chart reading error by ...
, the third largest island in the territory of
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 Delta i ...
.
It comprises Sha Po Old Village () and Sha Po New Village ().
Administration
Sha Po is a recognized village under the
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 ...
Small House Policy
The Small House Policy (SHP, ) was introduced in 1972 in Hong Kong. The objective was to improve the then prevailing low standard of housing in the rural areas of the New Territories. The Policy allows an indigenous male villager who is 18 ye ...
.
Archaeological interest
Sha Po Old Village is a place of archaeological interest. A complete hard geometric pot was unearthed in Sha Po Old Village by the
Hong Kong Archaeological Society
The Hong Kong Archaeological Society () is a government-funded organization dedicated to carrying out excavations and preserving archaeological heritage in Hong Kong. The society is affiliated with the Hong Kong Museum of History to establish arti ...
in 1970. In 1988,
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second prin ...
hard geometric was found by the same party in basel layers near
water table
The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation. The zone of saturation is where the pores and fractures of the ground are saturated with water. It can also be simply explained as the depth below which the ground is saturated.
T ...
, underlying 2m of
kiln
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Kilns have been used for millennia to turn objects made from clay int ...
debris and clean
sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class o ...
.
Education
All of Lamma Island is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 96. Within the school net is one aided school (operated independently but funded with government money): Northern Lamma School (南丫北段公立小學). No government schools are in the net.
References
Further reading
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External links
Delineation of area of existing village Sha Po (Lamma North) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
Villages in Islands District, Hong Kong
Lamma Island
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