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Southern District

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Southern District (南區), one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong, is located in the southern part of Hong Kong Island and is within the Hong Kong Island West area of the Legislative Council constituency.

History[]

The area around the Southern District was settled during the Neolithic period, and the surviving monuments include the Wong Chuk Hang rock carvings. During the Ming Dynasty, more fishermen began to settle in Aberdeen and Kellet Bay (Kai Lung Wan). Shek Pai Wan in Aberdeen was famous for re-exporting perfumed wood products at that time, and Guo Nui's "Records of Guangdong" contains a number of names of places in the present-day Southern District.

Since the early years of Hong Kong's history, the Southern District has been an industrial area, with the Ha Po Dockyard, the first large-scale dockyard in Hong Kong, built in 1857, and later acquired by the Whampoa Dockyard in the 1860s to become the Aberdeen Dry Dockyard[1], and Wong Chuk Hang, which was developed into an industrial area as Hong Kong's industrial development accelerated from the 1950s onwards.

In the past, the Southern District had been a sheltered harbour for fishermen and a place for business. According to the 1961 Hong Kong Census, the number of fishermen in the Southern District reached 28,000, accounting for more than a quarter of the total number of fishermen in Hong Kong at that time [1]. It was not until the 1960s that the Government developed the Southern District and built public housing estates such as Yue Kwong Chuen, Shek Pai Wan Estate, Wah Fu Estate, etc., which enabled many fishermen to come ashore and settle down, while some of the more affluent fishermen resided in Ap Lei Chau Main Street on the north shore of Ap Lei Chau and set up shops [1].

The Southern District used to belong to the Western and Eastern Districts, with the Stanley and Shek O Constituency (D17) originally belonging to the Eastern District and the rest of the district to the Western District. In 1981, in response to the development of representative government, the Government re-distributed the districts according to the distribution of the population so as to achieve a similar population in each district. The Southern District was formed by merging the southern part of Mount Davis Road in the original Western District and Stanley and Shek O in the original Eastern District, while the remaining Western District was merged with the Central District to form the Central and Western District. In addition, part of the area between Kellett Hill and Tin Wan Shan was realigned from the Central and Western Districts to the Southern District and the Central and Western District respectively.

Street/road structure[]

The Southern District is located in the south of Hong Kong Island, and its major external roads include Pok Fu Lam Road, Victoria Road, Aberdeen Tunnel, Nam Fung Road and Tai Tam Road, among which the Aberdeen Tunnel is the most heavily utilised by vehicles, and most of the franchised buses in the Southern District use the Aberdeen Tunnel as a route for their journeys to and from Hong Kong. However, due to the frequent congestion at the Cross-Harbour Tunnel at Hung Hom, the Aberdeen Tunnel (especially northbound) is often blocked by traffic queues. During peak hours, long traffic queues are common in the Aberdeen Tunnel, and sometimes it takes more than 15 minutes to enter the tunnel from Wong Chuk Hang.

In addition, Pok Fu Lam Road, Shek Pai Wan Road, Aberdeen Main Road, Wong Chuk Hang Road, Island Road, Repulse Bay Road, Stanley Gap Road and Tai Tam Road were part of the early "Kwan Tai Lo", which was later renamed as Island Road before it was dismantled in the 1960s. The remaining sections with more bus routes include Wah Fu Road, Aberdeen Praya Road and Nam Long Shan Road.

Ap Lei Chau, on the other hand, relies on the Ap Lei Chau Bridge, which is the only external bridge, initially with only one lane for each direction. When the bridge had to be closed due to accidents, the external traffic of Ap Lei Chau was completely cut off, and the Hong Kong Government eventually used the duplicate bridge approach to build another bridge next to it, so as to make the bridge into a two-lane, two-way carriageway.

Bus and minibus termini[]

Pok Fu Lam, Telegraph Bay, Waterfall Bay and Kellet Bay[]

Due to the large number of termini, please refer to the articles Pok Fu Lam, Wah Fu Estate, Kellet Bay and Cyberport.

Tin Wan and Aberdeen[]

Due to the large number of termini, please refer to the articles Tin Wan and Aberdeen.

Ap Lei Chau[]

Due to the large number of termini, please refer to the article Ap Lei Chau.

Wong Chuk Hang[]

  • Wong Chuk Hang Bus Terminus: Located at Nam Long Shan Road, the neighbourhood used to be the site of Wong Chuk Hang Estate, which has now been demolished for redevelopment.
  • Wong Chuk Hang Station Public Transport Interchange: Located outside Exit A1/A2 of Wong Chuk Hang Station on Heung Yip Road.
  • Sham Wan Public Transport Interchange: Located at Broadview Court, Shum Wan Road.
  • Ocean Park Public Transport Interchange: Opposite to the main entrance of Ocean Park, next to Exit A of Ocean Park Station.
  • Water World Bus Terminus: Located at Tai Shue Wan, close to the entrance of the Ocean Park Water World, where the former Ocean Park (Tai Shue Wan) Bus Terminus was situated.

Repulse Bay, Chung Hom Kok, Stanley and Shek O[]

  • Repulse Bay Beach: Located on Repulse Bay Road westbound near Repulse Bay Beach, it used to be a bus terminus, but after the cancellation of Route 61X, it is only an intermediate stop.
  • Chung Hom Kok Minibus Terminus: Located near Chung Hom Kok Road roundabout, it is the terminus of Hong Kong Island GMB Route 16M and an intermediate stop for franchised buses.
  • Chung Hom Kok (Cheshire Home) Minibus Terminus: Located at Chung Hom Kok Road near Cheshire Home, it is the terminus of Hong Kong Island GMB Route 16A.
  • Ma Hang Estate Public Transport Interchange: Located on the top floor of Stanley Plaza, opposite to Carmel Road, Stanley.
  • Stanley Village Bus Terminus: Located at Stanley Village Road near the junction with Stanley Beach Road.
  • Stanley Village (Stanley Beach Road) Minibus Terminus: located at Stanley Beach Road near Stanley Main Beach, it is the terminus for green minibuses.
  • Stanley Prison: Located outside the main entrance of Stanley Prison, it is currently the terminus for Hong Kong Island GMB routes 40X and 52.
  • Stanley Fort Bus Terminus: Located outside the main entrance of Stanley Fort.
  • Stanley Barracks: Temporary terminus located inside Stanley Barracks, which is a restricted area on weekdays and is only used on days when the barracks is open to the public.
  • Shek O Bus Terminus: Located near Shek O Beach.

Bus routes[]

Template:List of Southern District Bus Termini

Gallery[]

Notes and References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 ATV: "香港風華" ISBN 962-451954-4

External Links[]

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Stanley, Stanley Gap, Chung Hom Kok and Nam Long Shan
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