Everything about East Point Hong Kong totally explained
East Point was a
cape on the northern shore of
Hong Kong Island,
Hong Kong. It was a pointed headland extended from
Jardine's Hill, for example
Lee Garden towards the
Kellett Island. It marked the eastern limits of the early
City of Victoria. The piece of land separate
Causeway Bay in the east and the bay outside
Happy Valley. Streams and muds from
Tai Hang and Wong Nai Chung (now buried beneath
Canal Road) shaped the headland.
Two sides of the cape were 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 shape of the cape was mostly lost. 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 of the
MTR 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. Causeway Bay originally refers to the circular
tung lo-shaped bay. It also refers east shore of the bay, for example 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.
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