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Tang Lung Chau () is a islet located off the southern coast of Ma Wan island to the northwest of Hong Kong Island,
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Lighthouse

Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse and the former light keeper's house, located on Tang Lung Chau, was declared a monument on 29 December 2000.Antiquities and Monuments Office - Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse
/ref> The lighthouse, also commonly known as Kap Sing Lighthouse, was put into service on 29 April 1912; it is one of the five surviving pre-war lighthouses in Hong Kong. It is a skeletal steel tower of high with a white lantern on top. The steel tower and light apparatus were obtained from
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. The lighthouse, unmanned and automated, is now under the management of the Marine Department. There is a bedroom, a kitchen, a latrine and a store room in the adjoining brick light keeper's house. There was no spring or fresh water supply on the island so the light keeper of Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse used rainwater which was collected from the roof and then diverted into an underground tank.The Geographical Information System on Hong Kong Heritage
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See also

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List of lighthouses in Hong Kong This is a list of lighthouses in the People's Republic of China which includes mainland China and the two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Lighthouses in Mainland China Lighthouses in Hong Kong Following the establishment ...
* Green Island Lighthouse Compound * Cape D'Aguilar Lighthouse * Waglan Lighthouse


Gallery

File:Kap Shui Mun 2015.jpg, View of Ma Wan, with Tang Lung Chau in the upper part of the picture


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External links


Aerial view on Google Maps

Map of Tang Lung Chau
* {{Lighthouse identifiers , qid2=Q15936439 Uninhabited islands of Hong Kong Tsuen Wan District Declared monuments of Hong Kong Lighthouses in Hong Kong