1h 36min, jan 26, 1841 y - Possession Point
January 26 1841
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The Possession Point was on January 26 1841, and it is a former piece of land on the northwestern area of Hong Kong Island, before land reclamation moved the point further north by the British. The area is where James Bremer, the commander in chief of British forces in China. Before Hong Kong grew into a city, it was located on a shorefront lane (now Hollywood Road) and was originally named Tai Hang Hau (‘Big Puddle’) after the water that collected here from a stream that flowed down from the Peak into Victoria Harbour. It is also where British soldiers landed in 1841 to claim Hong Kong, and it was therefore named Possession Point. The ‘big puddle’ was filled in and Possession Street was built over it. In Chinese it is called 'Shui Hang Hau Street', a reference to the mouth of the stream that once discharged its waters here.
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07IS101 InSoc
History of Hong Kong
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