Victoria Peak

English

Etymology

Named after Queen Victoria.

Proper noun

Victoria Peak

1. A mountain in Central and Western 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.

   • 2016 July 7, Dina Mishev, “Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 July 2016‎^[3]:

     For non-hikers, this tram, in operation since 1888, takes passengers from the bottom of Hong Kong Island’s Central neighborhood up 1,312 feet on Victoria Peak, the island’s highest mountain.

   • 2019 April 17, Marcelle Sussman Fischler, “House Hunting in … Hong Kong”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-17, Real Estate‎^[5]:

     This two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom apartment is in the western section of Mid-Levels, an affluent residential area built into the northern slope of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Victoria Peak.

Synonyms

• Mount Austin
• The Peak

Derived terms

• Victoria Gap

Translations

mountain in Hong Kong

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 太平山 (taai³ ping⁴ saan¹), 扯旗山, 山頂 / 山顶 (saan¹ deng²), 柯士甸山, (poetic) 爐峰 / 炉峰

Further reading

• Victoria Peak at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.