Cheung Chau by junge1
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Description
Cheung Chau means 'long island' in Cantones. It is one of 243 Outlying Islands besides Hong Kong. Cheung Chau is 10km west of Hong Kong, off the south-east tip of Lantau and is only 2.5kmsq in size. Despite of this, it is the most populuous island with about 40,000 people living there, 10% of them on junks and sampans anchored offshore.
There is evidence that Cheung Chau was inhabited in prehistoric times. It had a thriving fishing community 2,500 years ago, and for centuries early Cantonese and Hakka settlers supplemented their income with piracy and smuggling.
As most of the other Outlying Islands, Cheung Chau has no vehicular traffic. This picture was taken in January 1996 and later scanned.
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Comments (8)
bugatti
love the colors ... nice place to visit ... wouldn't live there though ....
Richardphotos
very candid view of what a typical day would be there
Ionel
Very interesting view, Sig!
bkhook
Wow.. what a busy port...a part of the world few of us get to see.. thanks for sharing...
lanemtripp
great capture of what seems to be a really interesting place, thanks for sharing
mark.spooner
Good work.
jocko500
shyow how life is there on the water front. very good shot
DukeNukem2005
Very beautiful and very nice photo! Very well done!