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Fan Lau

Fan Lau (Chinese:

Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
??) is peninsula

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of Landform that is nearly surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus. Word origin: Latin paeninsula : paene, almost + insula, island....
and area in the southwest tip of Lantau Island

Lantau Island

Lantau Island, also Lantao, based on the old local name of Lantau Peak , is the largest island in Hong Kong, located at the mouth of the Pearl River ....
in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
. It is also southwest end the territory of Hong Kong. The very end of the tip is Fan Lau Kok. The peninsula separates water into Fan Lau Tung Wan in the east, and Fan Lau Sai Wan and Fan Lau Miu Wan in the west.

Fan Lau Tsuen, a village is on the flat land between the peninsula and main trunk of Lantau Island.

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Fan Lau (Chinese:

Chinese language

Peninsula

Lantau Island

Lantau Island, also Lantao, based on the old local name of Lantau Peak , is the largest island in Hong Kong, located at the mouth of the Pearl River ....
in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Lantau Trail

The Lantau Trail , opened on 4 December, 1984, is a List of long-distance footpaths on Lantau Island in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The 70-km trail is circular, starting and finishing in Mui Wo....
passes near the peninsula.

Fan Lau is a Cantonese name that means separating water flows. The tip points to Lantau Channel

Lantau Channel

Lantau Channel is a Channel south of Fan Lau Kok of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. The channel is also on the water boundary between Hong Kong and mainland China....
dividing the current from Pearl River

Pearl River (China)

The Pearl River or Zhu Jiang, or less commonly, the "Guangdong River" , is China's third longest river , and second largest by volume ....
and the water of South China Sea

South China Sea

The South China Sea is a marginal sea*south of China,*west of the Philippines,*north west of Sabah , Sarawak and Brunei,*north of Indonesia,...
. Due to its military strategic position, Fan Lau Fort

Fan Lau Fort

Fan Lau Fort is a fort in Fan Lau, the southwest corner of Lantau Island in Hong Kong....
was built in Qing dynasty

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty , also known as the Manchu Dynasty, followed the Ming Dynasty in History of China, and was the last ruling Chinese Dynasties of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 ....
to defense the territory.

Another archaeological founding on the peninsula is a stone circle

Stone Circles (Hong Kong)

Stone Circles are expected to be found in Hong Kong as Hong Kong is rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts....
of Neolithic

Neolithic

The Neolithic period was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 Before the Christian Era in the Middle East that is traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age....
and Bronze Age

Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is, with respect to a given prehistory, the period in that society when the most advanced metalworking included smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifact s....
with unidentified purpose. The Stone Circle and Fan Lau Fort are both Declared monuments of Hong Kong

Declared monuments of Hong Kong

Declared monuments of Hong Kong are places, structures or buildings legally declared to be "protected". In Hong Kong, declaring a monument requires consulting the Antiquities Advisory Board, the approval of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong as well as the publication of the notice in government gazette....
.

There is also a Tin Hau Temple

Tin Hau temples in Hong Kong

Around 60 temples are dedicated to Mazu in Hong Kong. They include:* Tin Hau temple, located at 10 Tin Hau Temple Road, Causeway Bay, east of Victoria Park, Hong Kong, in Eastern District, Hong Kong, on Hong Kong Island....
in Fan Lau. It is a Grade III historic building

List of Grade III historic buildings in Hong Kong

Grade III historic buildings are those selected by Hong Kong's Antiquities and Monuments Office as those buildings which are "Buildings of some merit, but not yet qualified for consideration as possible monuments....
.

There is a lighthouse at Fan Lau Kok.

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