Telegraph Bay or Kong Sin Wan (), formerly known as Tai Hau Wan (), is a bay in the west shore near

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, between Sandy Bay and Waterfall Bay on the

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. It is where the

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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'

operations. The indigenous name, Tai Hau Wan (), 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

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species of '' Bauhinia blakeana'' was first discovered near the bay.

References

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