Victoria Gap
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Victoria + gap, from Victoria Peak, ultimately named after Queen Victoria.
Proper noun
[edit]- A mountain pass in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
- 1899, The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c, page 278:
- The Peak Hotel is situated at Victoria Gap, about 1,400 feet above the sea, and provides extensive accommodation on a most luxurious scale.
- 1986 November 16, Sally Hassan, “A PARI OF HONG KONG CLASSICS”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, Section 10, page 9[2]:
- In the course of its journey from Garden Road to the Upper Terminus at Victoria Gap, the tram, like any neighborhood commuter train, stops - or more accurately hesitates - at Barker, Bowen, Macdonnell, Kennedy and May Road Stations.
- 2015 November 13, Hong Wrong, “HKFP History: A brief visual history of Hong Kong’s Peak Tram”, in Hong Kong Free Press[3], archived from the original on 30 December 2023, Travel & Transport:
- Thus, Peak Hotel owner and Scotsman Alexander Findlay Smith, planned to open up the area with a new tram system to connect Victoria Gap to Murray Barracks. […]
On its opening day, a local journalist wrote that “there is nothing to cause the least of nervousness and the car rises smoothly and steadily to the Victoria Gap.”
- 2019, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:
- West Group, RA, under Major Crowe evacuated their HQ at Wan Chai Gap and established a new HQ at Victoria Gap.
- 2020, Victor S. Ient, These Valiant Men: The Story of Eight British Servicemen in World War II in the Far East, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 16:
- The main route between Victoria Gap and Magazine Gap suffered severely, especially in the former area. Magazine Gap area, though continually shelled, fortunately suffered less and little damage was done to the cables, though subsidiary routes suffered…
- 2021 June 11, Tracey Furniss, “The Peak Tram, an old Hong Kong icon: taking millions of tourists a year to Victoria Peak, what can we expect from its sixth and latest upgrade since opening in 1888?”, in South China Morning Post[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on June 11, 2021, Leisure[5]:
- The line, connecting Murray Barracks to Victoria Gap, was opened by Governor Sir George William des Voeux in 1888