Tate's Cairn

English

Etymology

Probably named after George Passman Tate.

Proper noun

Tate's Cairn

1. A peak in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.
   • 1906, Hong Kong. Botanical, Forestry Department, Annual Report of the Forestry Department of Hong Kong‎^[1], page 9:

     Tea is cultivated in several places in the New Territories, e.g., in the Shing Mun valley and at the villages lying in the higher mountain valleys about Tate's Cairn and Buffalo Hill.

   • 1936, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist:

     To the north of Kowloon Peak the ridge dips and rises to Middle Hill and Tate's Cairn, then bends sharply to the west and continues over Temple Hill, Lion Rock and Beacon Hill.

   • 1983, Anthony Dyson, From Time Ball to Atomic Clock:

     The first installation was a Decca storm warning radar with a maximum range of 250 nautical miles based on top of Tate's Cairn. This equipment was used for nearly 20 years, until June 1979.

   • 2012, Graham Fisher, A Kiss and a Cup of Tea, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 28:

     Of all the sights in the world, few can compare with a place Dave and I discovered called Tate's Cairn, a modest hill back in the New Territories whose summit commanded a majestic oversight of the then colony.

   • 2017 August 26, Anne Marie Roantree, Venus Wu, “Battered Hong Kong and Macau brace for Pakhar, more flooding”, in Andrew Hay, editor, Reuters‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-08-05, COMMODITIES NEWS‎^[3]:

     The maximum sustained winds recorded at Waglan Island, Tate’s Cairn and Cheung Chau Beach were 113, 101 and 97 kmh (70, 62, 60 mph) respectively, with maximum gusts 135, 154 and 130 kmh (84, 96, 81 mph)

Translations

peak in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大老山 (daai⁶ lou⁵ saan¹)

Further reading

• Tate's Cairn at Google Ngram Viewer