Sunset Peak or Tai Tung Shan ( Chinese: 大東山) is the third-highest

peak Peak or The Peak may refer to: Basic meanings Geology * Mountain peak ** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics * Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion * Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...

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 is situated on

Lantau Island Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located West of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands ...

within

Lantau South Country Park Lantau South Country Park () is one of two rural country parks on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, the other one being Lantau North Country Park and its extension. Lantau South Country Park is located on the south side of the island. It was designat ...

and

Lantau North Country Park Lantau North Country Park () is one of two rural parks on Lantau Island, Hong Kong and is located on the north side of the island. The park was designated in 1978. History Lantau North Country Park was designated on 18 August 1978. An extension ...

and stands at a height of above

sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardise ...

. The second-highest

Lantau Peak Lantau Peak or Fung Wong Shan (literally "Phoenix Mountain") is the second highest peak in Hong Kong and the highest point on Lantau Island, with a height of above sea level. Name origin The mountain is actually made up of a pair of peaks, on ...

is located to the west of Sunset Peak.

Name

The

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...

name Tai Tung Shan ( Chinese: 大東山;

Jyutping Jyutping is a romanisation system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK), an academic group, in 1993. Its formal name is the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme. The LSHK advocates fo ...

: Daai⁶ Dung¹ Saan¹) literally means "Big East Mountain". Sun sets on Sunset Peak, Hong Kong

Access

Sunset Peak is only accessible by foot. It is located on of the 70-km long

Lantau Trail The Lantau Trail (), opened on 4 December 1984, is a long-distance footpath on Lantau Island in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The trail is a loop starting and finishing in Mui Wo. It is the third longest trail in Hong Kong, after MacLehose ...

. is long and goes from Nam Shan Campsite west of Mui Wo on South Lantau Road (elevation about ), to Pak Kung Au, another campsite on the Tung Chung Road (elevation about ). Both campsites are served by a number of bus routes going to Mui Wo,

Tung Chung Tung Chung, meaning " eastern stream", is an area on the northwestern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. One of the most recent new towns, it was formerly a rural fishing village beside Tung Chung Bay, and along the delta and lower courses of ...

, and other destinations on Lantau island.Stage 2 Nam Shan to Pak Kung Au
on hiking.gov.hk. The elevations at Nam Shan and Pak Kung Au are taken from a local map. Hong Kong Lantau Oct 2006 025

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Mountains, peaks and hills of Hong Kong Lantau Island {{HongKong-geo-stub

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