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Green Island [????- ]
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Rifle range on the Peak: The shooting platforms [????- ]
Martin Booth mentions this range a couple of times, as part of his walk along Harlech Road:
[...] passing a waterfall, and arriving at the place where the soldiers lay down to shoot across a valley at the butts.
I'm not 100% sure where the shooting platform was, but I'll guess it's here for a couple of reasons:
Muslim cemetery, Kowloon [c.1921-c.1967]
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You can see this on the 1949 map, marked 'Mohammedan cemetery'. It must have been cleared since then though, as now it is the site of several buildings.
Booth found the skeleton of a snake there, and notes the unusual shape of the graves. He was given the following explanation by one of the staff at the Fourseas Hotel:
Stonecutters Island [????- ]
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Lantau Peak [????- ]
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Ngong Ping East Gate / 東山法門 [????- ]
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This is possibly the stone pai lau described by Booth.
Po Lin Monastery [????- ]
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Tung Chung Fort [1832- ]
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Ngong Ping [????- ]
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