Ap Chau
Ap Chau (Chinese: 鴨洲), meaning "duck island", also known as Robinson Island, is an island in the Crooked Harbour, in the north-eastern New Territories of Hong Kong. It is located in Ap Chau Bay (鴨洲海) and is under the administration of North District. The island had 8 inhabitants as of June 2008.[1]
Robinson Island was named after Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, who was the 5th Governor of Hong Kong from 1859 to 1865.
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[edit] History
The village on the island was set up by American preachers from the then Taiwan-based True Jesus Church in order to shelter fishermen and their families who converted to Christianity in the 1960s.[1] The single primary school on the island opened in 1958.[2] There used to be over 1,000 inhabitants called the Tanka, an originally non-Chinese ethnic minority who were mostly fishermen but most have moved over to cities in the United Kingdom[1][3] such as Newcastle upon Tyne,[4] Leicester, Sunderland, Elgin[2] and Edinburgh. The church on the island is still active.[5]
[edit] Features
Fresh water in Ap Chau is obtained from the mainland China using an underground pipe.
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Ap Chau", HK magazine, Jun 19, 2008
- ^ a b Elizabeth Sinn (1998). The last half century of Chinese overseas. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 425–446. ISBN 9789622094468. http://books.google.com/books?id=F1x14Hvtwv8C&lpg=PA425&dq=ap%20chau%20true%20jesus%20church&pg=PA425#v=onepage&q=ap%20chau%20true%20jesus%20church&f=false.
- ^ History of the True Jesus Church in the United Kingdom
- ^ Li Wei (1994). Three generations, two languages, one family: language choice and language shift in a Chinese community in Britain. Multilingual Matters. pp. 64. ISBN 9781853592416. http://books.google.com/books?id=xcim-FFhvy4C&lpg=PA64&ots=giHjghHqqN&dq=ap%20chau%20church&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q=ap%20chau%20church&f=false.
- ^ True Jesus Church. Church in Hong Kong
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Coordinates: 22°33′04.5″N 114°16′10″E / 22.55125°N 114.26944°E
