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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
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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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