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The area around the Hong Kong Island entrance of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel in the 1970s; the tunnel was under construction.. Prior to the opening of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, vehicular traffic travelling across the Victoria Harbour relied on ferry services as early as 1933. [1]
Eastern Harbour Crossing - Tseung Kwan O line - between Yau Tong and Quarry Bay stations (opened 1989 as part of Kwun Tong line between Lam Tin and Quarry Bay) Immersed tube tunnel carrying Tung Chung line and Airport Express of MTR - between Hong Kong and Kowloon stations (opened 1998)
First proposed as early as 1967 [1] in a study commissioned by the Hong Kong government in 1966, [2] it was the first railway tunnel to cross the Victoria Harbour and also the first subsea railway tunnel in the territory. It was the second fixed crossing to cross the harbour, after the vehicular Cross Harbour Tunnel opened in 1972.
It is the third road tunnel to cross Victoria Harbour, linking reclaimed land in Yau Ma Tei in West Kowloon with Sai Ying Pun on Hong Kong Island. It was constructed by the Western Harbour Tunnel Company Limited (WHTCL), which also operated the tunnel from 1993 to 2023 under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) on a 30-year franchise contract with ...
Hong Kong said goodbye to 2024 with an epic fireworks display at 11 a.m. ET. PHOTO: Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbour to celebrate the New Year in Hong Kong, China Jan. 1, 2025. (Chan Long ...
Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island in the 1860s HMS Tamar anchored off the naval dockyard in Victoria Harbour in 1905 View from the Sky100. The first reference to what is now called Victoria Harbour is found in Zheng He's sailing maps of the China coast, dated c.1425, which appear in the Wubei Zhi (A Treatise on Armament Technology), a comprehensive 17th-century military book.
Map of Victoria City with location of boundary rocks marked in red. The city boundaries are defined in the laws of Hong Kong as follows: [2] On the north – The Harbour; On the west – A line running due north and south drawn through the north-west angle of Inland Lot No. 1299 and extending southwards a distance of 850 feet from the aforesaid angle;
Central Skyline with IFC building from Star Ferry in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong 2 International Commerce Centre & International Finance Centre 201007 Night view of Victoria Harbour from Sky100, Hong Kong - 20130808. Society for Protection of the Harbour (SPH) (Chinese: 保護海港協會) is a Hong-Kong-based organisation founded in November ...