Mount Parker
English edit
Etymology edit
Named after Sir William Parker, Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy).
Proper noun edit
- A peak in Eastern district, Hong Kong.
- 1993 June 1, Jinbong Kim, Dwight P. Baker, J. Nelson Jennings, Megachurch Accountability in Missions:: Critical Assessment through Global Case Studies, William Carey Publishing, →ISBN, page 79:
- Church members climb up to “Jacob's Ladder” on Mount Parker at Hong Kong's Quarry Bay to pray for peace and harmony in the city.
- 2003 February 16, “Corrections”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 September 2023[2]:
- A picture caption on Feb. 2 with an article about hiking in Hong Kong misstated the location of the trail shown. It is on Mount Parker, overlooking Quarry Bay on the northeast side of the island - not on the Dragon's Back ridge on the D'Aguilar Peninsula to the southeast.
- 2014, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 195:
- The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.
- 2019 July 15, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:
- The battalion moved quickly inland, ascending the north-facing slopes of Mount Parker. There are still old stepped paths that lead up from that part of the Island shore to the heights of Mount Parker.
- 2023 September 7, Meaghan Tobin, “Extreme rain in Hong Kong turns city streets into raging rivers”, in The Washington Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 27, 2024, Asia[4]:
- Rubble and water rushed down the side of Mount Parker near Chai Wan, where roads and parking garages sat under standing water. Huge rocks blocked roads in Shau Kei Wan.
Translations edit
peak in Hong Kong
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