Mount Cameron

English

Etymology

Perhaps named after William Gordon Cameron.

Proper noun

Mount Cameron

1. A peak in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
   • 1932, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist‎^[1], volumes 3-4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 206:

     Widely distributed on Hong Kong Island and in the Territories. Mount Cameron, the hills above the Tai-tam reservoirs, Mount Violet and Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island are particularly favoured localities.

   • 1993 August 29, “My search for the secret samurai”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 December 2021‎^[3]:

     Cameron Mansions sits right on the summit of Mount Cameron, one of those sub-Peaks which nonetheless commands a panoramic view of the harbour.

   • 2003, Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

     The southern anchor moves from Wong Nai Chung Gap to Mount Nicholson, then Mount Cameron, and finally Wan Chai Gap and a little west. Further south is the 'central sector'.

   • 2019, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

     Middle Gap is about halfway along Black's Link. It is the gap between Mount Cameron on the right and Mount Nicholson on the left.

Translations

peak in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 金馬倫山／金马伦山

Further reading

• Mount Cameron at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.