Double Island, Hong Kong

Double Island or Wong Wan Chau (Chinese: 往灣洲) is an island located in the north-eastern part of Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of North District.

Geography

Double Island has an area of 2.13 km².^[1] It is the second largest island in North District, the largest being Crooked Island. Its highest point is at 139 m.^[2] Its western coast is facing Double Haven.

Wong Wan (往灣) is a bay of Double Island. It is one of the 26 designated marine fish culture zones in Hong Kong.^[3]

Conservation

Double Island became part of the Plover Cove (Extension) Country Park in 1979.^[4]

Facilities

Outward Bound Hong Kong Adventure Base

History

Typhoon of 1858

It is wrongly suggested that it was the Double Island in Hong Kong's Double Haven (Yan Chau Tong, 印洲塘) where the September Typhoon of 1858 destroyed several well-known opium clippers, including the Anonyma, Gazelle, Pantaloon, and Mazeppa. Basil Lubbock's The Opium Clippers, cited in the original entry, is quite clear (p.347) that the Double Island in question was that at what was then called Swatow (today Shantou). The island is one of two that lie in the entrance to the river at Shantou and is the inner one, then called Masu. Today it is called Mayu (媽嶼島). For corroboration see Mayers & Dennys,^[5] for the identity of Double Island. For the typhoon and the damage to the vessels, The Courier (Hobart, Tasmania), 22 December 1858, p.3 for a report of Mr Midwood, of the Commissariat service, resident on Double Island during the typhoon.

References

^ Survey and Mapping Office, Lands Department: Hong Kong geographic data sheet
^ "K.W. Lai, S.D.G. Campbell & R. Shaw, Geology of the Northeastern New Territories, p. 15, Civil Engineering Dept, Geotechnical Engineering Office, December 1996" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
^ "Marine fish culture, pond fish culture and oyster culture". Fisheries Branch. Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
^ Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department: Plover Cove Country Park
^ William Frederick Mayers and Nicholas Belfield Dennys, The Treaty Ports of China and Japan (Hong Kong: Shortrede, 1867), p.236

22°30′45″N 114°18′37″E / 22.51250°N 114.31028°E / 22.51250; 114.31028

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[1] Survey and Mapping Office, Lands Department: Hong Kong geographic data sheet

[2] "K.W. Lai, S.D.G. Campbell & R. Shaw, Geology of the Northeastern New Territories, p. 15, Civil Engineering Dept, Geotechnical Engineering Office, December 1996" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2011.

[fisheries_culture-3] "Marine fish culture, pond fish culture and oyster culture". Fisheries Branch. Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2019.

[4] Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department: Plover Cove Country Park

[5] William Frederick Mayers and Nicholas Belfield Dennys, The Treaty Ports of China and Japan (Hong Kong: Shortrede, 1867), p.236

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v t e North District, Hong Kong
History	Death of Luo Changqing
Areas	Fanling-Sheung Shui New Town Fanling Sheung Shui Public housing estates in Fanling Public housing estates in Sheung Shui Wo Hop Shek Kam Tsin Lo Wu Man Kam To Sha Tau Kok Ta Kwu Ling Ping Che
Landmarks	Fanling Wai Fung Ying Seen Koon Hong Kong Golf Club Fanling Lodge Lo Wu Bridge Lo Wu Correctional Institution Sandy Ridge Cemetery Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall Wo Hop Shek Public Cemetery Gallant Garden
Border crossings	Lo Wu Man Kam To Sha Tau Kok
MTR stations	Fanling Sheung Shui Lo Wu
Islands	A Chau Ap Chau Mei Pak Tun Pai Ap Chau Pak Tun Pai Ap Chau (Robinson Island) Ap Lo Chun Ap Tan Pai Ap Tau Pai Chap Mo Chau Cheung Shek Tsui Fu Wong Chau Fun Chau Hung Pai Kat O Chau (Crooked Island) Ko Pai Kok Tai Pai Lan Shuen Pei Lo Chi Pai Ngo Mei Chau (Crescent Island) Pak Ka Chau Pak Sha Chau (Round Island) Pat Ka Chau Sai Ap Chau Sha Pai Shau Kei Pai Sheung Pai Shui Cham Tsui Pai Siu Nim Chau Ta Ho Pai Tai Nim Chau Tsing Chau Wong Nai Chau Wong Nai Chau Wong Wan Chau (Double Island) Wu Chau Wu Pai Wu Yeung Chau Pai Yan Chau Yeung Chau
Education	Fanling Public School Sheung Shui Government Secondary School Tin Ka Ping Secondary School TWGH Kap Yan Directors' College TWGH Li Ka Shing College
This list is incomplete.

v t e Major islands of Hong Kong
By area	Lantau Island Hong Kong Island Lamma Island Chek Lap Kok Tsing Yi Kau Sai Chau Leung Shuen Wan Po Toi Islands Po Toi Waglan Cheung Chau Tung Lung Chau Crooked Island Double Island Hei Ling Chau Ap Lei Chau Soko Islands Tai A Chau Siu A Chau Ping Chau Peng Chau Ma Wan Ninepin Group Tap Mun The Brothers Green Island Centre Island, Hong Kong Kowloon Rock
Former islands	Kellett Island Stonecutters Island Hoi Sham Island Channel Rock Pillar Island Mong Chau Chau Tsai Nga Ying Chau Lam Chau Rumsey Rock High Island Yuen Chau Tsai