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Hong Kong – Kowloon 1:10,000 plan. (Re-adjustment of grid lines).
Scope & Content:
The maps relate to the built-up areas along the northern margin of Hong Kong Island, and the Kowloon Peninsula south of Mong Kok.The material was produced to illustrate a possible gridding error on a new map. The scale statement applies to the 2 manuscript sheets.
The western part of the boundary between the Hong Kong Leased Territory and the adjacent part of China.
Scope & Content:
Two copies of a map showing the alignment of the boundary, which follows the High Water mark, from Kak Tin (1 mile upstream from the present day Huanggang border crossing) westwards to Shan Shek Ha (a distance of 13 miles). The Chinese side of this border is now part of the city of Shenzhen.
Map of Hill District Hong Kong surveyed by the Crown Lands & Survey Office. Public Works Department. 1926
Scope & Content:
One map in two sheets covering the area between Victoria Peak, Mount Kellett and Wanchai Gap on Hong Kong Island. Spot heights have been added in red ink.
The ten sheets cover the northern margin of Hong Kong Island from Kennedy Town eastwards to Causeway Bay, and southwards to Magazine Gap. Spot heights have been added in red ink.
'Kowloon Peninsula'. 'Traced from P.W.D. print by L. Hin Wing. 10th Feb 27'.
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Shows the layout of roads, existing and planned, with spot heights at intersections added in red ink. 'This plan which has been compiled from existing ones and separate detailed surveys indicates the laying out reservations & etc approved by the Government on the recommendations of the Town ...
'Victoria. Geographical Section, General Staff, No 3890. Published at War Office 1930'.
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Shows the northern shoreline of Hong Kong Island and the southern part of the Kowloon Peninsula. A copy of the published map, with manuscript corrections and additions made by the Hong Kong Public Works Department in 1931.
An hydrographic survey plotting bathymetric soundings on four extracts taken from Admiralty Chart no. 3026. Sheets 2 and 4 cover the Lema Islands (now Pengjia Liedao and Dangan Liedao); sheet 1 covers Ai-Chau (Aizhou Liedao), The Three Gates (Sanmen Liedao), and Ling Ting Island (Wai Lingding Da...