Victoria Peak
English
editEtymology
editNamed after Queen Victoria.
Proper noun
edit- A mountain in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
- 1932, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist[1], volumes 3-4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 206:
- Widely distributed on Hong Kong Island and in the Territories. Mount Cameron, the hills above the Tai-tam reservoirs, Mount Violet and Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island are particularly favoured localities.
- 2016 July 7, Dina Mishev, “Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel”, in The Washington Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 July 2016[3]:
- For non-hikers, this tram, in operation since 1888, takes passengers from the bottom of Hong Kong Island’s Central neighborhood up 1,312 feet on Victoria Peak, the island’s highest mountain.
- 2019 April 17, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, “House Hunting in … Hong Kong”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-17, Real Estate[5]:
- This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment is in the western section of Mid-Levels, an affluent residential area built into the northern slope of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Victoria Peak.
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editTranslations
editmountain in Hong Kong