Pls help on identifying some places off Hong Kong

Submitted by Dmitry_A on Mon, 06/17/2013 - 10:52

Greetings to everyone!

Some time before I have found an useful information on your site, now I'm glad to join your community. Hope you can help me with following:

I need to find Chinese names for some English toponyms nearby Hong Kong and vice versa.

For example, I know that Bias Bay once was 湃亞士灣, now it is 大亞灣.

I don't know the pairs for:

Tsiech Point

Kweilin Island

Reef Island

紅海灣

碣石灣

 

Thank you in advance!

Hi there,

I don't believe some of those places are in Hong Kong.  They are alone the coast of Guangdong Province anyway.  After Googling for a while I found these:

- Kwelin Island - 龜齡島 - Guiling Dao 

- 紅海灣 - Honghai Bay

- 碣石灣 - Jieshi Bay

I am uncertain of the Reef Island and Tsiech Point.  Might have to look up older maps fo these two.

Best Regards,

T


Hi there,

Are those places along previous sea going routes in the South China Sea?  I have saved the three locations into a new map and found they are relatively close to each other.   As for the older Pinyin I guess we really need some older maps for reference.

I'll try to look up Mapping Hong Kong - A Historical Atlas later.

Thanks & Best Regards,

T

 

Found these paragraphs at this site showing something like logs of a certain ship.  There are references to Hong-Hai Bay and Tsiech Point.  It described Tsiech Point as the Eastern outer entrance point of Hong-Hai Bay:

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CHAP.m.] TY-SAMI INLET — CHELANG POINT. 137 

The southern edge of the channel is bordered by a sandbank, which 
commences under Tj-sami mound, and extends ]^ miles off shore, until 
its north end bears West from Entrance head, where it shoals suddenly 
to 3 feet on its edge. The north end of the sandy spit under Entrance 
hill (on the south side of entrance), in line with the conical hill at the 
back of the town bearing E. f N., will lead into the inlet rather on the 
south side of the channel. 

Fair anchorage may be found westward of Ty-sami head, with good 
shelter in the north-east monsoon; but a long heavy swell rolls in. 

T2BSS. — ^In Hong-hai bay it is high water, full and change^ at lOh. Qm., 
rise 6J feet. 

OOAT zs&jBjn, lying S.E. 3 miles from Tsiech point, the eastern 
outer entrance point of Hbng-hai bay, is the southernmost and largest 
of a numerous group, amongst which there are no navigable channels^ 
S.W. J W. from its summit, and S.S.E. ^ E. from Ty-sami mound, is a 
dangerous rock, which shows only when the tide is low and the wind high. 
At rather more than a mile inland from the beach northward of Groat 
island, is the walled town of Tsieching. 

AJrcBORAaE. — There is good anchorage in the N.E. monsoon on the 
north-west side of Groat island, which, with the group of islets northward 
of it, shelters as well as can be expected from the heavy sea. This road- 
stead is very convenient and was always much used by opium vessels^

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Best Regards,

T