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Wok Tai Wan (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....
 ???) was a bay
Bay

A bay is an area of water bordered by land on three sides. Bays generally have calm waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some ocean surface wave and often reducing winds....
 on the northwest coast
Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
 of Tsing Yi Island, 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....
. The beach
Beach

File:MiamiSouthBeachPanoramaEdit.jpgA beach is a geology landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of Rock , such as sand, gravel, shingle beach, pebbles, or cobble....
 in the bay was once nudist paradise. Its hardness to accessing the bay on foot, with high hill
Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain, in a limited area. Hills often have a distinct Summit , although in areas with Escarpment a hill may refer to a particular section of scarp slope without a well-defined summit ....
s surrounded, or by small boat, with turbulence
Turbulence

In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a fluid regime characterized by chaotic, stochastic property changes. This includes low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time....
 in the nearby sea, made it the idea place for nudists to swim and have sunbath. Because of the nudist paradise, the bay once became an attraction for hikers even the activities ceased.

Wok Tai in Cantonese means the bottom of the wok
Wok

A wok is a versatile round-bottomed cookware and bakeware originating in China. It is used especially in East Asia and Southeast Asia. South Asia also uses a similarly-shaped vessel known as a karahi....
, a round-bottom pan.






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Wok Tai Wan (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....
 ???) was a bay
Bay

A bay is an area of water bordered by land on three sides. Bays generally have calm waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some ocean surface wave and often reducing winds....
 on the northwest coast
Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
 of Tsing Yi Island, 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....
. The beach
Beach

File:MiamiSouthBeachPanoramaEdit.jpgA beach is a geology landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of Rock , such as sand, gravel, shingle beach, pebbles, or cobble....
 in the bay was once nudist paradise. Its hardness to accessing the bay on foot, with high hill
Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain, in a limited area. Hills often have a distinct Summit , although in areas with Escarpment a hill may refer to a particular section of scarp slope without a well-defined summit ....
s surrounded, or by small boat, with turbulence
Turbulence

In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a fluid regime characterized by chaotic, stochastic property changes. This includes low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time....
 in the nearby sea, made it the idea place for nudists to swim and have sunbath. Because of the nudist paradise, the bay once became an attraction for hikers even the activities ceased.

Wok Tai in Cantonese means the bottom of the wok
Wok

A wok is a versatile round-bottomed cookware and bakeware originating in China. It is used especially in East Asia and Southeast Asia. South Asia also uses a similarly-shaped vessel known as a karahi....
, a round-bottom pan. The bay named with its wok shape.

Nudism

In 1932, a European
European ethnic groups

The European peoples are the various nations and ethnic groups of Europe. European ethnology is the field of anthropology focusing on Europe....
 Lam Part set up a nudist club in Heung Fan Liu in Sha Tin
Sha Tin

Sha Tin is an list of areas of Hong Kong in the New Territories, in the Hong Kong Special administrative region....
. He later sold the premises
Premises

Premises are land and buildings together considered as a property. This Etymology arose from Real property owners finding the word in their title deeds, where it originally correctly meant "the aforementioned; what this document is about", from Latin prae-missus = "placed before"....
 in 1938 because the building of Shing Mun Reservoir
Shing Mun Reservoir

Shing Mun Reservoir is a reservoir in Hong Kong. It is located in Shing Mun, the area between Tsuen Wan and Sha Tin. The reservoir was completed in 1936....
 in 1935 and the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 seriously affected his business.

Between 1938 and 1941, he used his boat
Boat

A boat is a watercraft of modest size designed to float or plane on water, and provide transport over it. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas....
 to take his nudists' club members to the bay to continue their gathering. The number of members reached its height, 20.

During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong

The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began after the Governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young surrendered the territory of Hong Kong to Imperial Japan on 25 December 1941 after Battle of Hong Kong by British and Canadian defenders against overwhelming Japanese Imperial forces....
 (1941–1945), he lost his boat and the club's activities was interrupted. He rented boats instead to take the members to the bay and renamed his club to sunbathing club 1950s.

In 1960s all nudist activities halted owing to insufficient participants.

Tsing Ma Bridge

The bay remained largely silent in 1970s and 1980s, and only occasionally explorers came to find its past.

The bay became more accessible when Hong Kong United Dockyards (HUD) was built closer to the bay in 1976. Tsing Yi Road
Tsing Yi Road

Tsing Yi Road is the longest road on the Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong. It is one of the earliest road on the island, built together with Tsing Yi Bridge....
 was extended to the dockyard.

In early 1990s, Tsing Ma Bridge
Tsing Ma Bridge

The Tsing Ma Bridge is a bridge in Hong Kong. It is the world's List of longest suspension bridges suspension bridge. The bridge was named after two of the Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, namely Tsing Yi Island and Ma Wan ....
, an integral part of Port and Airport Development Strategy
Port and Airport Development Strategy

The Port and Airport Development Strategy is an infrastructure project in Hong Kong. It is better known as the Rose Garden Project ....
, started. The suspension bridge
Suspension bridge

A suspension bridge is a type of bridge where the main load-bearing elements are hung from suspension cables. While modern suspension bridges with level decks date from the early 19th century, earlier types are reported from the 3rd century BC....
 spans from the hill at the back of Wok Tai Wan. Wok Tai Wai was reclaimed for the building one of the two tower
Tower

Towers are tall human-made structures that are always taller than they are wide, usually by a significant margin. Towers are generally built to take advantage of their height, and can stand alone or as part of a larger structure....
s of the bridge and a pier
Pier

A pier is a raised walkway over water, supported by widely spread piles or column. The lighter structure of a pier allows tides and currents to flow almost unhindered, whereas the more solid foundations of a quay or the closely-spaced piles of a wharf can act as breakwaters, and are consequently more liable to silting....
 supporting the road from the tower to the hill.