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34-513: Ma Wan is an island of Hong Kong, located between Lantau Island and Tsing Yi Island , with an area of 0.97 square kilometres (240 acres). Administratively, it is part of Tsuen Wan District . The Lantau Link that passes through Ma Wan was constructed in the mid-1990s as part of the Hong Kong Government 's Rose Garden plan to connect the new Hong Kong International Airport to the city centre. Its development fostered plans to develop

68-462: A fishing village and had more residents living on junks than on land. Cheung Chau had already been settled by people from other places in Southern China ; for example, Hoklo , they are mainly fishing people; Hakka people ; Chiu Chau ; and Yue Ca . The island slowly evolved into a commercial hub with merchants selling supplies to the local fishing people, boat repair and fishing gear as well as

102-633: A mortuary for those killed in shipwrecks. In 1915, the Asylum was expanded by a local kaifong association known as the Cheung Chau Kai Fong Hui ( 長洲街坊會 ), and was subsequently renamed The Cheung Chau Fong Bin Hospital . The word Fong Bin , meaning 'convenience' in Chinese, suggested that the hospital was meant to serve the medical needs of all. Substantial renovations took place in 1931 and 1951 to meet

136-469: A tombolo . With an area of 2.45 square kilometres (0.95 square miles), the island is therefore "long", hence the name as translated from Cantonese is "Long Island". Thus, it is redundant to say "Cheung Chau Island". The island is dumbbell-shaped, with hills at the northern and southern ends and the settlements concentrated in between. The central part of the island is well-developed with shops and houses. The lane-ways are so narrow that normal motor traffic

170-588: A 3-storey traditional village house of 2,100 square feet (0.048 acres) or 3 separate units, each of 700 square feet (65 m) in one single block. Park Island is a private housing estate that was mainly developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties as part of the Ma Wan Development joint venture project and completed from 2002 to 2006 in six phases. Ma Wan Main Street Village and Tin Liu are recognized villages under

204-460: A Customs house, still recorded by a stone monument named "Kowloon Gate" monument. (near the old Rural Committee building). It ceased activity on 4 October 1899. Similar customs stations had been established at Fat Tau Chau and Cheung Chau . In 1965 as part of the United States CARE program, 12 two storey housing units, and one communal house were donated and built on a top of a hill near

238-581: A major tourist attraction , offering a mixture of sandy swimming beaches, seafood cafés, and traditional Chinese culture. In 1898, Cheung Chau was leased to the United Kingdom for 99 years (till 1997) under the Second Convention of Peking , alongside some 200 other outlying islands and the New Territories . The island thus became part of British Hong Kong . At that time, the island was mainly

272-520: Is a coarse ash crystal tuff containing lapilli . Some layers of fine volcanic ash are found in the far north of the island. The contained mafic minerals are biotite and amphibole . The tuff contains mostly quartz and alkali and plagioclase feldspar. Other minerals include apatite , magnetite , monazite and zircon . The Ma Wan granite is fine grained. It contains microcline , and few feldspar phenocrysts. The main minerals are quartz, perthitic orthoclase , and plagioclase. The dark mineral

306-560: Is an outlying island of Hong Kong , located 10 km (6.2 mi) southwest of Hong Kong Island . It is also called Dumbbell Island ( Chinese : 啞鈴島 ) due to its dumbbell -like shape. It has been inhabited for longer than most other places in Hong Kong, and had a population of 22,740 as of 2011 . Administratively, it is part of the Islands District . Geographically the island is formed from two mostly granite masses joined by

340-464: Is historically the political and commercial centre of Hong Kong. It was the site of the initial settlement of Victoria City , where the financial district of Central is now located. Most of the other islands are commonly referred to as the Outlying Islands . The Kowloon Peninsula , across Victoria Harbour from Hong Kong Island is another notable commercial centre in Hong Kong. In terms of

374-406: Is impossible. Instead, there are small motorised trucks officially termed " village vehicles ", which include specially designed mini- fire engines , ambulances and police cars . Residential areas also exist on the hills of the north and south. The island was traditionally a fishing village and still has fishing fleets working from the harbour. However, in recent years, the island has become

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408-501: Is mostly biotite. Also contained is zircon, fluorite , and allanite . It is found on the south of the east coast. Dykes formed later with a mafic dyke injected first followed by a felsic material. A feldsparphyric dyke crosses the island east–west near the ferry pier. Several Cenozoic age quartzphyric rhyolite dykes cross the island. These are also injected with narrow dacitic dykes, and last of all very fine grained mafic basaltic dykes. A north east trending fault crosses Ma Wan from

442-679: The Lantau Link . Park Island Transport Co., Ltd. operates bus services from Park Island to Tsing Yi MTR station , Kwai Fong Metroplaza , Hong Kong International Airport , Tsuen Wan West and Tsuen Wan (close to the Tsuen Wan MTR station ). Starting from 3 July 2008, urban taxis were permitted access into Ma Wan between 8 pm and 7 am the following morning to meet residents' transport needs. Starting from 14 December 2012, urban taxi were permitted access into Ma Wan 24 hours daily. Private vehicles are generally not permitted to enter

476-704: The New Territories Small House Policy . Although the Hong Kong government originally claimed it would be "physically impossible" to give the island a road connection via the Lantau Link, this was disproved with the beginning of construction of Park Island. The island is now connected to Tsing Yi by the Tsing Ma Bridge (a suspension bridge ), and to Lantau Island by the Kap Shui Mun Bridge (a cable-stayed bridge ). Both bridges are part of

510-421: The districts of Hong Kong , while one of the 18 districts is called the Islands District , many islands of Hong Kong are actually not part of that district, which only consists of some twenty large and small islands in the southern and the south-western waters of Hong Kong. These islands belong to respective districts depending on their locations. Below is a partial list of the peninsulas of Hong Kong and

544-733: The typhoon shelter on the west side to the Tun Wan. The island is separated from Lantau Island by a fault under the channel called the Kap Shui Mun Fault. This is angled to the North West, and has its direction controlled by the major tectonic zone it is in called the Linhua Shan Fault System that extends from the coast of Guangdong to Fujian. Prominent joints are at 85° parallel to the dykes. Other joints are close to horizontal, can cause rocks to form sheets. Remains have been found from

578-598: The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences found complete Neolithic human skeletal remains in tombs at the Tung Wan Tsai North site. 20 tombs were found spanning from the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age. The prehistoric island had late neolithic inhabitants as proved by recent excavations. There were also inhabitants here during the Han dynasty . Foreign visitors first arrived on the island in 1794. Ma Wan once had

612-613: The Fisheries Joint Association Public School, Shun Dal Primary School and The Cheung Chau Government Primary School and three secondary schools including the now closed Caritas Saint Paul's Secondary School . Although there are more people living on Cheung Chau now than ever, the fertility rate throughout Hong Kong has dropped significantly leading to many school closings throughout the city. Cheung Chau in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 97. Within

646-675: The Fishermen's Association. The new village costed around HK$ 200,000 to build, and could house 24 families. After naming it Ma Wan Fishermen's Village ( 馬灣漁民新村 ), it was officially opened on the 7th of December 1965 by Arthur Patrick Richardson (李作新), the Assistant Director of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department . In the early 1970s, the island across from Ma Wan was occupied by three families. Their family names were Woo, Pang, and Woo. The children of these families attended

680-711: The Mid-Neolithic Age (about 3000 BC), the late Neolithic Age (about 2000 BC), the early to late Bronze Age of coastal South China (1500–500 BC), the period of the Warring States to the Han dynasty (206 BC −220 AD), the Tang dynasty (618–917 AD) and the Qing dynasty (1644–1911 AD). In 1997, a joint excavation by the Antiquities and Monuments Office and the Institute of Archaeology of

714-634: The St. John Hospital, which provides Western medicine , the Fong Bin Hospital had been slowly fading away. It ultimately fell into disuse and complete abandonment in 1988. The hospital has been listed as a Grade III historic building since 31 August 2010. The annual Cheung Chau Bun Festival is a festival which includes a parade of floats, most famously including young children dressed as famous characters doing impossible balancing acts. It lasts three to four days and attracts tens of thousands of visitors to

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748-425: The airport platform had not yet been built and the area of Tsing Yi increased later as a consequence of land reclamation. The original Chek Lap Kok had an area of 3.02 km (other sources mention 2.8 km ). By the time when the airport was open the size of the island was cited to be 1,248 hectares. Cheung Chau Indonesian (2.0%) Cheung Chau ( Chinese : 長洲 ; lit.   ' Long Island ' )

782-479: The districts they belong to: Below is a partial list of the islands of Hong Kong and the districts they belong to: The following is a list of the largest islands of Hong Kong, sorted by area (km ): Leung Shuen Wan was connected to the mainland in the 1970s to form the High Island Reservoir . It historically had an area of 8.511 km and was in 1960 the 4th largest island of Hong Kong. At that time,

816-674: The island "Death Island" and stories concerning apparitions appeared. In 2005, Islands District councillor Lam Kit-sing suggested converting the notorious villa into a macabre tourist attraction , proposing a "ghost town" with a "charcoal-burning museum", Halloween-style fairs, and "haunted" flats for people to stay in. The plans quickly received strong opposition from residents, villa owners, and his fellow councillors, including criticism that they might create copycat suicides . Temples on Cheung Chau include: The island of Cheung Chau has one operating hospital and one abandoned hospital. St. John Hospital , also known as Haw Par Hospital ,

850-589: The island , an arrangement which also exists in Discovery Bay on the nearby Lantau Island ; however a permit can be requested from the Transport Department of Hong Kong. Minibuses are not allowed, but the Park Island management company operates cars in case of emergency or special situations, though their availability is not guaranteed. Lorries may enter the island between 10 am to 4 pm daily without

884-459: The island. There are currently three primary schools in Cheung Chau, including C.C.C. Cheung Chau Church Kam Kong Primary School (中華基督教會長洲堂錦江小學), Cheung Chau Sacred Heart School (長洲聖心學校), and Kwok Man School (國民學校), and two secondary schools : Buddhist Wai Yan Memorial College  [ zh ] and Cheung Chau Government Secondary School . Formerly there were 7 primary schools including

918-618: The island. Today, a large part of Ma Wan is occupied by the Park Island apartment complex. A theme park , named Ma Wan Park , was built to accompany the housing project, with its first phase opened on 1 July 2007. Ma Wan has an area of 0.97 square kilometres (0.37 sq mi). Its highest point is Tai Leng Tau (69 metres (226 ft)) in the southeast. Two channels separate Ma Wan and other major islands. Ma Wan surface rocks are mostly volcanic rocks called Yim Tin Tsai Formation. This

952-476: The kindergarten and Fong Yuen School in Ma Wan. Water transportation to Ma Wan was signalled by waving a flag at the pier. As of 1995, fish farming was the predominant economic activity on Ma Wan. Ma Wan had a population of 800 in 2000. With the development of the Park Island apartment complex, villagers were rehoused in the northern part of the island. As part of the compensation package, they could choose either

986-410: The need for a special permit. There are several ferry piers on the island: Park Island Ferry Pier on the northeast, one on the old Tin Liu village on the west (formerly hosting Sham Tseng ferries), Man Wan Public Pier on the southwest at Ma Wan Main Street Village, Tai Pai Tsui Pier on the south of the island facing Tang Lung Chau , one on the north of the island used for the garbage removal, one on

1020-522: The place to do business for fishing people and small farmers of other nearby islands like Lantau Island . At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Cheung Chau, both land and boat based, was 7,686. The number of males was 4,519. From the late-1990s to the early-2000s, a spate of suicide cases (usually by charcoal-burning ) took place inside rental holiday flats of the island's Bela Vista Villa on Tung Wan beach, seeing more than 25 suicide attempts and 20 deaths by 2008. Local newspapers soon dubbed

1054-471: The rising demand for medical care in Cheung Chau and nearby outlying islands . In 1945, the ownership of the hospital was transferred to the Cheung Chau Residents' Association ( 長洲居民協會 ). It was staffed by reputable doctors trained in traditional Chinese medicine , and provided cheap and quality medical treatment that even attracted patients from other outlying islands. Since the 1934 opening of

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1088-516: The school net are the three aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) on Cheung Chau; no government schools are in this net. Sun Ferry operates ferries between Central pier number 5 and Cheung Chau. The ferries run approximately every 30 minutes depending upon time of day. Schedules on Sundays and public holidays differ from weekdays. The trip of about 20 kilometres (12 miles) takes 55 minutes for ordinary ferries or 35 minutes for high speed ferries. Cheung Chau also has

1122-606: The southeast side (but on a Government land not open). Park Island Transport Co., Ltd. operates ferry services between Park Island and Central Piers (Pier 2). Another route to Tsuen Wan Pier (near West Rail Tsuen Wan West station ) is also available. Ma Wan is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 62, which includes schools in Tsuen Wan and areas nearby. The net includes multiple aided schools and one government school, Hoi Pa Street Government Primary School. List of islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong Hong Kong Island

1156-496: Was founded in 1934 by Hong Kong St. John Ambulance and has been the island's main hospital since 1988. The Cheung Chau Fong Bin Hospital ( 長洲方便醫院 ; 'Cheung Chau Convenience Hospital') was established in 1872. It was originally called the Asylum ( 棲留所 ) and was not a hospital in the modern sense, in that it did not provide medical care and only functioned as a refuge for poor homeless patients to die in peace and dignity and as

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