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Lantau Island
Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Lantau Island, also Lantao, based on the old local name of Lantau Peak, is the largest island in Hong Kong, located at the mouth of the Pearl River.
Administratively, it is part of the Islands District, but a small part in the northeast of the island belongs to Tsuen Wan District.
It has an area of 146.38 km².
Originally the site of sleepy fishing villages, the island has in recent years been transformed with the development of several major infrastructure projects, including Hong Kong's new international airport and Hong Kong Disneyland.

For a more information about Lantau Island see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page was retrieved and condensed from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantau_Island) see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, November 2007.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).
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This information was correct in November 2007. E. & O.E.




We, Hui Chin, Endre, my son and I visited Lantau Island in 1997 and it was a hive of activity as they were busy building the new airport, hotels and the extensions to the Hong Kong MTR to Lantau Island and the airport.




You can click on these photos for an enlargement.

1997

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The Tian Tan Buddha (or "Giant Buddha"),
an 85-foot-high bronze Buddha statue, on Ngong Ping Plateau.
(Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Tian Tan Buddha)





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