Telegraph Bay or Kong Sin Wan (), formerly known as Tai Hau Wan (), is a bay in the west shore near Pok Fu Lam, between Sandy Bay and Waterfall Bay on the

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. It is where the Cyberport is located.

History

In the early colonial days, the bay is marked as Taihowan Bay, a spelling variant of Tai Hau Wan. The name ''Telegraphy Bay'' suggested that it is where the telegraph cable linked to overseas in late 19th century by Cable and Wireless' Hong Kong operations. The indigenous name, Tai Hau Wan (大口灣), means big mouth bay. It is now mistakenly referred to the north end of the bay as Tai Hau Wan (), that is Sandy Bay (), a small bay in adjacent to. Note that character is mistakenly written as . The endemic species of ''Bauhinia blakeana'' was first discovered near the bay.

References

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