Beyond Lion Rock: The Story Of Cathay Pacific Airways - Plot & Excerpts
It comprises Hong Kong Island (32 square miles), the mainland peninsula of Kowloon (3.5 square miles), the mountainous New Territories and numerous islands that in 1946 amounted to 335 square miles: 370 square miles in all (later land reclamation has added quite a bit more). But this appendage to China is perfectly poised between South East Asia, the Far East and Australasia, with the Pacific on its doorstep and, beyond the Pacific – America. What above all else gives Hong Kong the right to the title ‘Gateway to South China’ is the broad, natural harbour between the island and the peninsula. This expanse of water is protected to the west by a number of islands big and small, and approachable from the east through the quarter-mile-wide Lei Yue Mun Gap – a gap of great importance to aviators as well as ships’ captains, as will be seen. To the west, the largest island of all is Lantau, more than twice the size of Hong Kong Island itself and at its highest over 3,000 feet – a dragon-like shape pointing its straggly tail towards the broad western anchorage.
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