Mount Kellett
English
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Etymology
[edit]Named after Henry Kellett.
Proper noun
[edit]- A peak in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
- 2009 June 1, Charles Barman, Ray Barman, Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 63:
- After quickly loading, I arranged with Capt Otway that I take the lorries loaded with 3.7-inch and 4.5-inch shell to Mount Kellett and Sanatorium gun positions and that he move the last three lorries loaded with 6-inch How ammunition to a rendezvous point, near the vicinity of the Government Dairy Farm situated at Pokfulam, where I was to return and collect the lorries to deliver the ammunition to the gun positions at Mount Austin and Mount Gough.
- 2006 January 1, Plague, SARS and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong[1], Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130:
- Matilda International Hospital (1907–present)
Standing on Mount Kellett, overlooking Lamma Channel and South China Sea, Matilda Hospital is an historic building with handsome white Shanghai marble plaster walls, and was opened in 1907.
- 2016 April 2, Jason Wordie, “The big chill in Hong Kong: how 2016 compares to 1893, 1948”, in South China Morning Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 04, 2016, Opinion[3]:
- Details were recorded by an eyewitness, L. Gibbs, and published in the quarterly Hong Kong Naturalist, in 1931. In his account, Gibbs, who was living on Mount Kellett in 1893, vividly described the effects of several days of extreme cold on Hong Kong Island’s upper altitudes.
- 2023 January 19, Siobhan Daiko, The Flame Tree[4], Asolando Books, page [5]:
- Will smirked to himself as he thought about them—Mount Kellett, Strawberry Hill and Mount Gough in the Peak district; Mount Cameron and Mount Nicholson enclosing Happy Valley, Mount Davis towering over the western approach to the harbour.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]peak in Hong Kong
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