Lantau Island in Hong Kong is more than 900 meters high. I want to know more. Does anyone know how high it is from the sea and how high it is from the sea?

Lantau Island is the largest island in Hong Kong, with an area nearly twice that of Hong Kong Island. Located outside the Pearl River Estuary. Lantau Island is high in the southwest and low in the northeast. Phoenix Mountain, the main peak, is 935 meters above sea level, making it the second highest peak in Hong Kong. Lantau Island has many hills and little flat land, and there is only a small flat land under the mountain stream. The most densely populated place on the island is Tai 'ao Town in the southwest. Since the 1970s, many Hong Kong people like to travel and rest on Lantau Island on weekends or holidays.

Chinese name

Lantau island

Foreign name

Lantau island

Another name

Dahao island

location

Southwestern Hong Kong

Surface product

147. 16 km2

pinnacle

Hill phoenix

Highest elevation

934 meters (3,064 feet)

catalogue

Geographical features of 1

2 climatic conditions

3 scenic tourism

Scenic spots/tourist attractions

Tourism and entertainment

Nearby scenic spots

4 traffic

5 Research value

6 history

1 geographic element editing

Located outside the Pearl River Estuary. Lantau Island is high in the southwest and low in the northeast. Phoenix Mountain, the main peak, is 935 meters above sea level, making it the second highest peak in Hong Kong. Lantau Island is the largest island in Hong Kong, with an area of 14 1.6 square kilometers, which is equivalent to two Hong Kong islands. The coastline here is long and tortuous, and the harbor and beach, mountains and flowing water, natural landscape and historical sites complement each other.

2 climatic conditions editor

Hong Kong is located to the east of the Pearl River Estuary, with its back to Chinese mainland and facing the South China Sea. Its topography is mainly hilly and belongs to subtropical monsoon climate. Hong Kong has distinctive characteristics all year round, and it is extremely mild for almost half a year. It is spring from March to mid-May, and the weather is warm and humid. May to September is summer, and the weather is hot and very humid. Autumn is usually sunny and dry from late September to late1February. 1Late February is winter, and the temperature is usually low.

There are more clouds in January and February in Hong Kong, bringing dry north winds. The temperature in urban areas is sometimes low, and frosting will occur. The weather in March and April is extremely humid, fog and light rain reduce visibility, and sometimes even interrupt air and ferry services. It is hot and humid from May to August, with showers and thunderstorms. July to September is the most vulnerable month to typhoons in Hong Kong. When tropical cyclones gather about 700 to 1000 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong, the weather is usually sunny and hot, but there may be local thunderstorms at dusk. If the tropical cyclone center moves closer, the wind will increase and there may be heavy rain in most areas. 1 1 month and1February in Hong Kong are sunny, cool and dry, which are the best seasons of the year.

3 landscape tourism editor

Lantau island

Lantau Island has many hills and little flat land, and there is only a small flat land under the mountain stream. The most densely populated place on the island is Tai 'ao Town in the southwest. The mountain is majestic and is known as the "top of the mountain". There is Luohan Temple at the foot of the mountain. The Luohan Cave and Luohan Spring in the temple are charming. There are Baolian Temple and the "Giant Buddha in the Temple of Heaven" in Shanxi, the ancient castle of Zhang Baozai, a pirate in the Qing Dynasty in the north, and the longest bathing beach-Cheung Sha Wan Fishing Ground in the southeast coast.

Scenic spots/tourist attractions

Its main attractions are: Baolian Temple, Tai O and Tsing Ma Bridge.

baolian temple

baolian temple

Known as the southern Buddhist kingdom, it is the first of the four Zen forests in Hong Kong. Baolian Temple was founded in 1924. After decades of efforts, today's temple buildings are magnificent, including the palace-style Hall of the Great Hero and the magnificent Hall of the King. This temple provides accommodation so that visitors can go to Phoenix Mountain to watch the sunrise or have a short retreat.

On the top of Muyu Mountain, directly opposite the memorial archway of Zen Temple, there is a newly-built bronze Buddha statue in the world, called the Tiantan Giant Buddha. The statue was designed and produced by China Aerospace Science and Technology Department, with a total height of nearly 34 meters. It is a combination of religious art and cutting-edge technology. The base of the giant Buddha has three floors, including exhibition halls. There is a big clock with Buddha statues and scriptures engraved on it. The clock is controlled by computer, and it strikes once every seven minutes, *** 108 times, to "relieve 108 kinds of troubles".

Taiao

Taiao

Tai O has the reputation of "Venice of Hong Kong". Tai O is located on an outlying island, far away from the bustling urban area, and is less affected by urbanization, so it still retains the early fishing village style of Hong Kong. Tai O has beautiful scenery, and the elevated cabin on the waterway is the residence of fishermen. Rivers and streams are interspersed in rows of ancient shack buildings, setting off a unique fishing village.

Tai O is famous for its traditional salted fish, shrimp paste and fish belly. When you set foot in Tai O, tourists will feel the strong seafood flavor.

There used to be a cross-water ferry between Tai O and Lantau Island, which was one of the characteristics of Tai O, but it has been cancelled now.

Tsing Ma Bridge

Tsing Ma Bridge, which spans the sea from Tsing Yi to Ma Wan, is one of the top ten core projects of the new airport in Hong Kong. The total length of the bridge is 2,200m, and the span of the main bridge is1.377m.. There are two hanging towers, each 206 meters high and 62 meters above the sea.

Tsing Ma Bridge

, is the longest railway and highway suspension bridge in the world. Together with the Kap Shui Mun Bridge connecting Ma Wan and Lantau Island, it looks like two rainbows. The spectacular momentum completely surpasses the Golden Gate Bridge in the United States and becomes a new tourist attraction in Hong Kong.

Located at the northwest end of Tsing Yi Island, the Lantau Link Visitor Center and Observation Deck are the best places to watch the Tsing Ma Bridge.

Tourism and entertainment

Best travel time

If you travel to Hong Kong, the best time to travel is10-165438+10 every year. Hong Kong has a subtropical climate. The annual average temperature in Hong Kong is relatively high, reaching 22.8 degrees, and the weather is easily affected by the monsoon, with four distinct seasons. When traveling to Hong Kong, you can wear a thin coat or sweater in spring. Summer is hot and humid, and sometimes there are showers and thunderstorms. Take some short shirts, cotton clothes, coats and rain gear. It is sunny in autumn, suitable for wearing shirts, sweaters and thin coats. It is dry and cold in winter, so it is more appropriate to choose suits, thin sweaters and coats.

campsite

Gouling Chung on Lantau Island is known as the most beautiful campsite in Hong Kong. Here, you can completely remove the usual heavy armor, put aside the hustle and bustle of the city, immerse yourself in the mountains and rivers, and enjoy the purity and freshness of nature. All kinds of plants are spread all over the island, and the scenery in every part of the island is natural and natural. At night, we lit a bonfire and jumped together, so that songs, laughter and human voices echoed in the vast sea and midnight. We explore life under the sand with bare feet. Ren Haifeng mixed with thick seafood and blew it on his face, lying leisurely on the beach, with slightly moist and soft sand under him and looking at the flashing blue sky on his back.

Nearby scenic spots

Disneyland, Lamma Island, Po Toi Group Island, Ma Wan, Tsing Ma Bridge, Lantau Island, Cheung Chau, Shihaidong, Peng Chau Island, Lantau Island, Tiantan Buddha, Ngong Ping 360.

4 traffic editor

Waterway:

You can take a ferry or high-speed boat from Pier 7 in Central to Mui Wo (also known as Silver Mine Bay), and then transfer to buses to various scenic spots. Ferry service hours are from 5: 55 to 23: 30 from Monday to Saturday, and from 7: 00 to 23: 00 on Sundays and holidays.

Land:

You can take the MTR Tung Chung Line directly to Tung Chung New Town, or you can take bus E2 1 from the Olympic Station.

5 Research Value Editor

Hong Kong is located in the tropics, with high temperature and rainy weather, strong weathering and steep terrain. Human activities have a great impact on the natural environment, resulting in landslides becoming one of the most important natural disasters in Hong Kong.

Through research and investigation, it is shown that natural surface landslide is indeed a natural disaster. Lantau Island, the largest outlying island in Hong Kong, has preserved a relatively complete natural state and is an ideal research area for studying natural landslides in Hong Kong.

6 history editor

The evolution of names

In the Song Dynasty, Lantau Island and Hong Kong Island were collectively called Daxi Mountain. This name was first seen in Wang Xiang's Ji Sheng in the Land in the Song Dynasty. Its cloud says: "Daxi Mountain: In the sea of Dongguan County, there are 36 islands, and residents make a living by fishing for salt." In ancient times, the word "Xi" referred to people who were enslaved. Until the Ming Dynasty, the Daxi Mountain only referred to Lantau Island in a narrow sense, such as "The Unified Scenic Spots of Daming" compiled by Cao Xuequan in Chongzhen.

Lantau island

It said: "Daxi Mountain, in the South China Sea of the county, is surrounded by 36 islands and goes back more than 300 miles."

Lantau Island is also known as Daxi Mountain, Judas Mountain, Dayu Mountain, Dayu Mountain, Nantou Island, Lantau Island, Tuen Mun Island, Dahao Mountain and Dahao Island. The English name of Lantau Island is believed to be a transliteration of Cantonese for "rotten head" or "Nantou". Although the Cantonese pronunciation of "Yu" is the same as that of "zeoi6", "Lantau Island" is pronounced as "yu4". This is because the old names of Lantau Island, such as "Big Fish", "Dayu" and "Dayu", all sound like "fish", and the name "Lantau Island" was the official name that only started in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty.

Early development

Lantau Island was inhabited as early as the Stone Age. Archaeologists have unearthed pottery, fishing tools and weapons at that time, and the existing stone carvings in the diversion stone circle and stone wall are the remains at that time.

At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Lu Xun, the leader of the local rebel army, led his men to flee to Lantau to settle down. Later generations made salt by fishing, and later became a civilian branch. But at that time, there was also a legend that there was a half-man, half-fish creature on the island called Lu Ting.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, with the establishment of Guanfu Farm in Kowloon, the court explicitly cracked down on salt smuggling, which led to the local salt people's turmoil in the third year of Qingyuan in Song Ningzong (1 197), which was known as the Daxishan salt people's uprising in history. Later, the unrest was suppressed, all the insurgents were killed, and the salt industry declined from then on. On the other hand, in the second year of Baodou (1254), Li founded Panyu with 300 restaurants.

Lantau island

Mui Mei (now Mui Wo) on Lantau Island is also one of its food cities.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song court was forced to exile at sea. It took Song Duanzong Jingyan two years and three years (1277 and 1278). They stayed on Lantau Island twice and made short stops in Mui Mei (now Mui Wo) and Tung Chung. In March of Jing Yan's third year, Duan lived on the north shore of Lantau Island and died. Min inherited the throne and then fled to Xinhui.

Ming and Qing dynasties

During the Zheng De period of Ming Dynasty, the French (now Portugal) harassed Tuen Mun and set up a stronghold in Tai O, Lantau Island. In the sixteenth year of Zheng De (152 1), a naval battle broke out in Tuen Mun, and the French retreated from Lantau Island.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Gulong Waterway north of Lantau Island became the only channel for foreign businessmen to trade with Guangzhou. In order to prevent opium trade and pirate invasion, the imperial court set up a castle in Tung Chung in the 12th year of Daoguang (1832), which is now called Tung Chung Castle. In the 25th year of Guangxu reign (1899), the New Territories, including the whole Lantau Island, was leased by the British in accordance with the Special Provisions on Expanding the Boundary of Hong Kong, and the southern boundary pillar of Lantau Island was set up on the island to show British sovereignty.

Before 1990, the Hong Kong colonial government never carried out large-scale development on Lantau Island. From 65438 to 0989, the then Governor of Hong Kong, MacLehose, announced the "Airport Core Plan", connecting Lantau Island with land transportation by the airport railway and the Lantau Link, and Lantau Island began to carry out large-scale construction.

Lantau island

War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression

During World War II, the Japanese army began to attack Hong Kong on 194 1. 1940 In September, the children of the indigenous inhabitants of the New Territories, under the leadership of the Guangdong People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla (formerly the Guangdong People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla) under the leadership of the Chinese Production Party, formed the Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade of Dongjiang Column to organize forces to resist the Japanese invasion of China. It was not until the British Hong Kong government surrendered to the Japanese army and Hong Kong fell that the Hong Kong Kowloon Brigade continued to wage guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army. April 1942 Members of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Brigade strengthened their control over Lantau Island and strengthened their ties with Macao and Guangzhou.

Modern development

David Wilson, then Governor, announced the Airport Core Plan and decided to develop a new airport at Chek Lap Kok. Tung Chung in the northwest of Lantau Island has developed into a new town in North Lantau Island, which is connected with land transportation outside the island by the Airport Express Line, Tung Chung Line and Lantau Link, and a large number of constructions have started in Lantau Island.