East Point, Hong Kong
Encyclopedia : E : EA : EAS : East Point, Hong Kong
East Point (東角, Tung Kok) was a cape on the north shore of Hong Kong. It was a pointed headland extended from Jardine's Hill, i.e. Lee Garden towards the Kellett Island. It marks the east limit for the Victoria City. The land separate the Tung Lo Wan (Causeway Bay) in the east and the bay outside Happy Valley. Streams and muds from Wong Nai Chung (now Canal Road), So Kon Po and Tai Hang shaped the headland.
Two side of the cape was reclaimed over a hundred years. The first stage was in the mid-19th Century. The east of the cape was reclaimed to the edge of Victoria Park and the west to Hennessy Road. The second stage was between World War I and World War II. Its west was reclaimed to Gloucester Road. The cape was mostly lost its shape. For the construction of Cross Harbour Tunnel, further reclamation extended the land to Kellett Island and the cape was completely buried.
Physically, the Causeway Bay Station and World Trade Centre are built on the body of East Point. Windsor House and Paterson Street falls on its first stage reclamation. Thus above two area was referred as East Point. and the west of it was Ngo Keng. Much of land of East Point was in hand of Jardine-Matheson. Swire once had a sugar refinery in Sugar Street.
Large scale reclamations make the geographic feature and division less obvious. Tung Lo Wan, i.e. Causeway Bay, originally refers to the circular bay. It also refers east shore of the bay, i.e. present-day the area in Tin Hau Station. It gradually replaces East Point as the name of the area. The name East Point is still be found in East Point Road and East Point Centre.
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.