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	Stonecutters Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stonecutters Island or Ngong Shuen Chau (昂船洲) is a former island in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
		The island was connected to the Kowloon peninsula by the West Kowloon Reclamation in the 1990s to provide land for the construction of the road and railway network to the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok, and for the new container terminals.
		Soko Islands (Tai A Chau, Siu A Chau)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stonecutter's_Island (774 words)

	Ecosystems Ltd.
		A proposed PRC navy dockyard at Stonecutters Island, Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong required a survey of coastal flora and fauna.
		Stonecutters, historically a British naval base, was until recently the last island within Victoria Harbour which still possessed areas of closed canopy woodland.
		Stonecutters Island has been recognised as one of the world's largest roosting sites for Black-eared Kites, and also supports a large resident community of breeding Reef Egrets, Night Herons, and other wading birds.
	www.ecosystems-ltd.com /ports-hk.htm (483 words)

	Tsing Yi
		Tsing Yi Tsing Yi Tsing Yi (青衣;), or Tsing Yi Island (青衣島) is an island of Hong Kong, to the northwest of Hong Kong Island.
		Should the island be divided into four quarters, the northeast quarter is a residential area, the southeast quarter is a container port and heavy industry, the southwest holds heavy industry, and the northwest includes a recreation trail, a transportation interchange and some ship yards.
		The population concentrated in the northeast portion of the island.
	encyclopedie-en.snyke.com /articles/tsing_yi.html (1840 words)

	Hong Kong. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Kowloon is connected with Hong Kong island, 1 mi (1.6 km) away, by ferry and by a vehicular tunnel.
		The region of Hong Kong, which had long been barren, rocky, and sparsely settled—its many islands and inlets a haven for coastal pirates—was occupied by the British during the Opium War (1839–42).
		The government reacted firmly, and, although the Chinese retaliated by briefly stopping the piping of water and by attacking British representatives in Beijing, relations between Hong Kong and China soon resumed the surface harmony that had existed since the late 1950s.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ho/HongKong.html (1454 words)

	Hongkong_GKIndia
		Hong Kong Island is 32km (20 miles) east of the mouth of Pearl River and 135km (84 miles) southeast of Canton.
		Hong Kong Island was ceded to Britain in 1842 by the Treaty of Nanking; and the Kowloon Peninsula (south of Boundary Street and Stonecutters Island) in 1860 by the Convention of Peking.
		The area of Boundary Street to Shenzhen River and a group of 260 islands, now known as the New Territories, were leased to Britain in 1898 for a period of 99 years.
	www.gkindia.com /Flags/Hongkong.htm (299 words)

	Gulf Islands National Seashore-Fort Massachusetts
		The island was declared a United States military reservation in 1847, and 9 years later the U. Congress authorized construction of a fort.
		During the remainder of the summer of 1861, the Confederate forces on the island worked with sandbags and timber to strengthen the walls of the unfinished fort.
		Ship Island was used as the staging area for the Union Forces' successful capture of New Orleans in the spring of 1862.
	www.nps.gov /guis/extended/MIS/MHistory/Forts.htm (592 words)

	Hong Kong
		Hong Kong consists of the island of Hong Kong (32 sq mi; 83 sq km), Stonecutters' Island, Kowloon Peninsula, and the New Territories on the adjoining mainland.
		The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in 1841.
		Stonecutters' Island and Kowloon were annexed in 1860, and the New Territories, which are mainly agricultural lands, were leased from China in 1898 for 99 years.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0108114.html (442 words)

	The Hunt's Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		It is made up of many islands, a portion of the mainland, and a considerable expanse of water surface.
		Geography The dependency can be divided into three main regions; Hong Kong Island and nearby islets; the mainland Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island; and the New Territories, made up principally of a large area on the mainland and Lantau island.
		The dependency is partly situated in the Zhu Jiang, or Pearl River, delta, and the Sham Chun River forms the border with China.
	www.wdghunt.demon.co.uk /family/hongkong.htm (478 words)

	Hong Kong Travel Guide \| LukeTravels.com
		At the eastern end of the island's tram route is Shau Kei Wan, once a pirate's haunt, now a residential area and home to the colony's second largest fishing fleet.
		Repulse Bay, on the south side of the island, was named after the HMS Repulse, which routed pirates in the mid-19th century.
		Hong Kong can be divided into three main regions—Hong Kong Island and nearby islets; the mainland Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island; and the New Territories, composed principally of a large area on the mainland, Lantau Island, and most of the colony's 235 other small islands.
	www.luketravels.com /hong-kong/sights.htm (921 words)

	Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong
		If anybody does discover the troops bivouacked on the island, then the official story is that they are training; but so far nobody has learned of their presence.
		It was the presence of entire army brigades secreted on the island that prompted his series of coded messages, which the characters may have found in his trunk at Victoria Apartments, to Sir Jeffrey Manders in London.
		In the South-west corner of the Island is the cave hideaway of Cheung Po Tsai, the infamous pirate who has been preying on shipping in the waters around Hong Kong for several years, and has so far managed to avoid capture.
	www.lange.demon.co.uk /Castle_Falkenstein/Scenarios/OutHK/OutHK_Chapter_7.html (2727 words)

	Hong Kong Main Page
		It also includes the whole of the Kowloon Peninsula, the New Territories and 235 outlying islands, in all a total land area of 1,067.65 sq.
		Others think the name is older still, and that it may have come from the incense and joss stick industries which once thrived along the south and west coasts of the island.
		The name of the peninsula is from the Chinese'Kau Lung'-'nine dragons'-and derives from an incident 800 years ago when the boy emperor Ping counted the eight hills of the peninsula and remarked that there must be eight dragons nearby, according to the ancient belief that a dragon inhabits each mountain.
	www.travelvantage.com /hkg.html (380 words)

	U.S. Commercial Service Hong Kong: Country Profile
		Hong Kong is on the Southeast coast of China, 70 miles from the Tropic of Cancer.
		With an area of 404 square miles, Hong Kong is about four times the size of Washington, D.C. The territory consists of Hong Kong Island, the Kowloon Peninsula, Stonecutter's Island, the New Territories, and various surrounding islands.
		The Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters' Island were added in 1860 with the signing of the Treaty of Peking.
	www.buyusa.gov /hongkong/en/40.html (621 words)

	Road Traffic Technology - Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong
		By the time it is completed in 2008 the bridge will be the longest of its type in the world, with a span of 1,018m and an overall length of 1,596m.
		The bridge will span the Rambler Channel from the back-up land of Container Terminal 8 (CT8) at the eastern side on Stonecutters Island to the back-up land being formed for Container Terminal 9 (CT9) on Tsing Yi Island.
		The bridge is a major component of the $17 billion Route 9 that runs from Tsing Yi to Cheung Sha Wan and connects the island of Tsing Yi and Kowloon.
	www.roadtraffic-technology.com /projects/stonecutters (756 words)

	Travelocity Guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Hong Kong Island is the glitzy big brother of Kowloon - a tightly packed, towering paean to market capitalism that hasn't been dented one jot by Chinese rule.
		The bustle of people living and working is the biggest attraction on the island, although many visitors head around to Aberdeen, on the southern side of the island, where 6000 people live or work on junks anchored in the harbour.
		Hong Kong Island is steep, so if your'e heading away from the harbour, do as the locals do and ride the 800m (870 yards) outdoor escalator.
	www.travelocity.com /TEU_destPrint/0,4191,TCYUK\|63,00.html; (2561 words)

	Flint & Neill Partnership - Bridges, Footbridges, Ponts, Passarelles, Brucken, Stege, Ponti
		This cable stayed bridge is the winning design in the international competition to design a highway crossing over the Rambler Channel from Stonecutters Island to a reclaimed area on Tsing Yi island.
		This record breaking super-long hybrid cable stayed suspension bridge with a proposed main span of 2300 metres is the result of a feasibility study and design development work which we are undertaking for the project's developers.
		Crossing the deep-water channel between the islands of Java and Bali, the bridge presents several major engineering challenges, and will become one of the world's major bridges when completed.
	www.flintneill.co.uk /bridges.html (1282 words)

	Harbor of Fragrance, Hongkong, Regent Tour China
		Hong Kong proper is located on the second largest of the islands, just south of the southern tip of the peninsula.
		The islands apart from Hong Kong Island and the mainland sections of Kowloon and the New Territories are called the Outlying Islands.
		In 1859, a British-French alliance sent troops to China to enforce the Convention of Peking, which ceded the Kowloon Peninsula and nearby Stonecutters Island to the British.
	www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/hkg/hk-glance.htm (370 words)

	Hong Kong (1)
		With Nanjing (Nanking) under threat, the Chinese were forced to accept the Treaty of Nanking which ceded the island of Hong Kong to Great Britain 'in perpetuity'.
		In 1859, the Chinese were forced to cede the Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island to the British.
		About 60% were born in the colony; 35% live in Kowloon, 21% on Hong Kong Island, 42% in the New Territories and 2% on the Outlying Islands.
	www.cba.uh.edu /peixoto/travel1.htm (1895 words)

	The Maritime Heritage Project Ports: Europe
		The British started referring to the small, hilly, rocky island sheltering the harbor as "Hong Kong," which comes from a local Cantonese dialect and means "fragrant harbor." The British colony of Hong Kong was born from the clash between two great empires.
		Captain Charles Elliot, Royal Navy, arrived in Hong Kong on January 25, 1841 and planted the Union flag, proclaiming Hong Kong as a colony for the United Kingdom.
		By 1844, the population of Hong Kong Island was 20,000, with an influx of Chinese immigrants from the Chinese mainland seeking work.
	www.maritimeheritage.org /ports/pacific/china.html (1068 words)

	Hong Kong -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Hong Kong Island and its adjacent islets have an area of only about 35 square miles, while urban Kowloon, which includes the Kowloon Peninsula south of Boundary Street, and Stonecutters Island measure only about six square miles.
		The Victoria urban district located on the barren rocks of the northwestern coast of Hong Kong Island is the place where the British first landed in 1841, and it has since been the centre of administrative and economic activities.
		Located on the southeast coast of China at the mouth of the Pearl River delta 80 miles (130 kilometers) southeast of Canton, Hong Kong is centered around one of the world's largest natural deepwater harbors.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9106286 (931 words)

	Black & Veatch - News / Events - Media Coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		DRAINAGE officials are going ahead with plans to develop compact sewage treatment facilities at Stonecutters Island treatment works after awarding three contracts totaling nearly $17.2 million for firms to carry out pilot trials.
		The tests are part of a broader project that will involve construction of a larger full-scale treatment plant and a new deep tunnel collection system worth between $15 billion and $20 billion.
		The three firms are expected to take about three months to construct the plants, followed by a further 10 months of trials that should be completed in February 2003.
	www.bv.com /news/articles/feb02/stonecutters.htm (507 words)

	mjmpics.html
		Stonecutters Island was used as an ammunition store by the Royal Navy in colonial times.
		This affects the education of the children who are born or residing on the wrong side of the border from their families.
		The North shore of Hong Kong island is served by trams since 1904 which cover several routes between Kennedy Town, through Central District and eastwards to Sha Kei Wan.
	www.btinternet.com /~initiative.cafe/mjmpics.html (2566 words)

	Base closure to end Royal Navy's Far East presence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The 156-year colonial chapter that began with Queen Victoria's navy landing troops on the sparsely inhabited island of Hong Kong will end against a backdrop of skyscrapers and a crowded harbor - testimony to Hong Kong as the most successful British colony of all.
		The original island base, called HMS Tamar, has been paved over for real estate, and the facility closing today is on Stonecutters Island, just across the harbor.
		The spot where he is said to have made a toast to Her Majesty's health at the island's northwestern end is now crowded with shops and apartment blocks.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/041197/base.htm (336 words)

	Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Hong Kong consists of Hong Kong Island (ceded by China to Britain in 1842), the southern part of the Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island (ceded in 1860) and the New Territories, which include the mainland area lying to the north and 235 offshore islands.
		When the British started using the excellent harbor on the northern side of Hong Kong Island in the early 1840s, they found more than 3,000 inhabitants in villages and 2,000 fishermen living in their boats in the harbor.
		Friction between China and the West, however, increased in 1850 when a new emperor assumed the throne in Beijing, and it became clear the treaties were not being observed.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9708/text/hongkong.html (1920 words)

	CNN - British navy bids poignant farewell to Hong Kong base - Apr. 11, 1997
		The ceremony at HMS Tamar, the naval base on Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong harbor, took place exactly 100 years to the day after another vessel of the same name first arrived in Hong Kong waters.
		A lone sailor struck a ship's bell eight times -- the "Eight Bells" that signal the end of a long watch -- before the White Ensign, the flag of the Royal Navy, was gently lowered to an anthem of recession.
		China, whose navy will occupy another site on Stonecutters Island, was not represented at the ceremony.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9704/11/hong.kong (515 words)

	Hong Kong 1941. The Battle of the MTB's(in brief) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In defence of a Sea borne attack, the guns had been placed after calculations showed that 100 points on the mainland could be hit with the limited ammunition available.
		During the nights of 11th and 12th the troops retreated to Hong Kong Island, except those defending Devils Peak Peninsula who got away on the 13th with the aid of HMS Thracian and four MTB's.
		On the night of 14/15th HMS Thracian ran aground and was damaged beyond repair while engaged against two river steamers, which she sank in Kowloon Bay suspected of carrying Japanese Troops.
	www.hamstat.demon.co.uk /HongKong/Battle.html (1855 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The dependency can be divided into three main regions—Hong Kong Island and nearby islets; the mainland Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island; and the New Territories, made up principally of a large area on the mainland and Lantau island.
		Hong Kong's small amount of fertile soil is concentrated in the mainland portion of the New Territories, near Deep Bay.
		It is a major commercial and residential section of Hong Kong and is connected by railroad to Canton.
	users.aber.ac.uk /hak3/hongkong_geography.htm (155 words)

	History
		Towards the end of the period the Sung are driven south by Genghis Khan’s Mongols, and most of the seek refuge in the Hong Kong area.
		The oldest settlements on Hong Kong Island are Chek Pai Wan (Aberdeen) and Shan Kei Wan.A people who are undoubtedly related to the aboriginal population are the Tonkas, who come closest to the description of the first inhabitants.
		The island of Hong Kong is ceded to Britain, and the British superintendent of trade, Captain Charles Elliott declares it a British colony on his own responsibility.
	www.nychinatown.com /history_of_Hong_Kong.htm (1430 words)

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