Tung Chung Fort

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Tung Chung Fort

Tung Chung Fort (; ???? during Qing Dynasty) is a fort located near Tung Chung

Tung Chung

Tung Chung, namely the eastern stream, is an area situated on the north-western coast of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. Tung Chung, currently one of the latest generation of new towns, was formerly a rural village around Tung Chung Wan, and along the delta and lower courses of Tung Chung River and Ma Wan Chung in the north-western coast of L...
, on 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....
. Located near Tung Chung Road

Tung Chung Road

Tung Chung Road is a two disjointed-section road and also the only road connecting the north and south coast of Lantau Island. The first section is a short road linking a former pier and Wong Nai Uk in Tung Chung....
, the fort is surrounded by villages of Sheung Ling Pei and Ha Ling Pei. It has a companion Tung Chung Battery

Tung Chung Battery

Tung Chung Battery is a former battery located in Tung Chung, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It is close to Ma Wan Chung.Built in 1817, it is a companion of Tung Chung Fort of the south....
on the coast.

Chung Fort was built in during Shun Hei era (??, 1174 - 1189) of Southern Song Dynasty.

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Tung Chung Fort (; ???? during Qing Dynasty) is a fort located near Tung Chung

Tung Chung

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

Tung Chung Road

Tung Chung Battery

History

Tung Chung Fort was built in during Shun Hei era (??, 1174 - 1189) of Southern Song Dynasty. Smugglers on the 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 ....
smuggled salt

Salt

A salt, in chemistry, is defined as the product formed from the neutralisation reaction of acids and base . Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically electric charge ....
from the island to the Canton City

Guangzhou

'Guangzhou' is the Capital and a sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province of China in the northern and southern China part of the People's Republic of China....
and attacked the government of the city. The government sent a navy led by King Leok Chin to fight against the smugglers. Three hundred soldiers were stayed in Tung Chung and built the Tung Chung Fort. After 3 year of peace, the soldiers were retreated and 150 of them were transferred to built and stayed in Kowloon Walled City

Kowloon Walled City

The Kowloon Walled City was a tiny Chinese people enclave and exclave that was located in the middle of Colonial Hong Kong for decades. It was torn down in 1993....
.

During 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 ....
, the pirates, including the famous Cheung Po Tsai

Cheung Po Tsai

Cheung Po Tsai or Chang Pao Tsai was a 19th century China pirate. He was also known as Cheung Po/Chang Pao/Zhang Bao .Several places in Hong Kong are linked to Cheung Po Tsai:...
, chose the bay of Tung Chung as their base and made use of the fort. Qing Government recovered the fort after the surrender of Cheung Po Tsai

Cheung Po Tsai

Cheung Po Tsai or Chang Pao Tsai was a 19th century China pirate. He was also known as Cheung Po/Chang Pao/Zhang Bao .Several places in Hong Kong are linked to Cheung Po Tsai:...
. In 1832 (or 1817 alternatively) the fort was restricted and garrisoned by the Right Battalion of Tai Peng to defend the coast from pirates until the lease of New Territories

New Territories

New Territories, abbreviated to NT or N.T., is a region in Hong Kong excluding Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and Stonecutters Island. Historically, it is the region described in The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory....
to Britain

United Kingdom

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in 1898. The fort was then abandoned.

During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese army occupied the fort.

Tung Chung Fort went later through several transformations. It served as a police station and then as a Wa Ying College

Wa Ying College

Wa Ying College is a secondary school in Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is managed by the Chinese Methodist Church....
. Now, it is the base for the Rural Committee Office and the Tung Chung Public School.

In 1979, it was declared a monument

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....
and was refurbished in 1988.

Features

There are 6 old muzzle-loading cannons (still intact), each resting on a cement base with enclosures made of granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of Intrusion , felsic, igneous rock rock . Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as Porphyry ....
blocks, which measure 70 metres by 80 metres. Three arched gateways, each engraved with a Chinese inscription, are spaced along the walls.

Transportation

The fort can be reached from Mui Wo

Mui Wo

Mui Wo is a rural town on the eastern coast of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. The main beach in Mui Wo is known as Silver Mine Bay ....
(Silvermine Bay) bus terminal and via bus no. 3 to Tung Chung terminus and about a half mile walk from the bus stop in the direction of the fort. The fort can also be reached via buses number 13 and 34 and MTR

MTR

MTR, or Mass Transit Railway, is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong. The MTR first began service in 1979 and officially merged with the Kowloon Canton Railway on 2 December 2007, still bearing the same name in English....
. Permission is required to drive into the park.

Tung Chung Fort

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