Plover_Cove Knowpia

Shuen Wan Hoi
Shuen Wan Hoi
Traditional Chinese	船灣
Simplified Chinese	雞籠灣
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Chuán wān hǎi

Plover Cove
Plover Cove
	Fish farming at Plover Cove. Plover Cove Reservoir (left) and Ma Shi Chau (right) are visible in the background
Traditional Chinese	船灣海
Simplified Chinese	船灣海
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Chuán wān hǎi

Plover Cove also known for its Chinese names Shuen Wan Hoi (Chinese: 船灣海; pinyin: Chuán wān hǎi) or Shuen Wan (船灣; Chuán wān), is a cove in the Tai Po District of Hong Kong, near Tolo Channel and Tolo Harbour.

Geography edit

It is encircled by the hills Pat Sin Leng and Wan Leng (橫嶺), the Yim Tin Tsai, Ma Shi Chau and Tung Tau Chau (東頭洲) island ranges, and a long peninsula extending from Fu Tau Sha (虎頭沙). A major part of the cove has been dammed to form the fresh water Plover Cove Reservoir.

A land area between Sha Lan Tsuen and Ting Kok is also known as Shuen Wan.

The community of Shuen Wan Heung is made up of the eleven villages of A Shan, Tung Tsz, Wai Ha, Ha Tei Ha, Tseng Tau, San Tau Kok, Wong Yue Tan, Chim Uk, Chan Uk, Lei Uk and Sha Lan. An administrative organ for Shuen Wan Heung was established in 1992.^[1]

Historically, Ting Kok, together with the nearby Hakka villages of Shan Liu, Lai Pik Shan, Lo Tsz Tin, Lung Mei and Tai Mei Tuk belonged to the Ting Kok Yeuk (汀角約) alliance.^[1]

Cross Tolo Harbour Open Race edit

The annual Cross Tolo Harbour Open Race, an open-water swimming event organized in September/October by Tai Po Sports Association, starts at Sha Lan Tsuen near Sam Mun Tsai and finishes at Tai Mei Tuk. The course runs across Plover Cove in straight-line format and is approximately 2,600 metres in length.

References edit

^ ^a ^b "Wong Wing Ho, "Towards Urbanisation: Shuen Wan and Plover Cove Reservoir", Tai Po Book pp. 238-239" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-07-18. Retrieved 2011-08-07.