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The Praya Reclamation Scheme () was a large scale
, Antiquities and Monuments Office, Government of Hong Kong SAR, accessdate=2007-12-15 It did not commence until February 1890, and as it was significantly larger than the first, the completion was between 1903 and 1904. There were discrepancies in the number of acres actually gained from the entire project: some sources claimed it added of land to
The Praya Reclamation Scheme () was a large scale land reclamation
Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new Terrestrial ecoregion, land from oceans, list of seas, seas, Stream bed, riverbeds or lake ...
project carried out by the Hong Kong Land
Hongkong Land (HKL) is a property investment, management and development group with commercial and residential property interests across Asia. It owns and manages some 850,000 sq. m. of office and retail property in Asia, principally in Hong K ...
company in 19th Century Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
under Sir Catchick Paul Chater and James Johnstone Keswick
James Johnstone Keswick (1845–1914) was a Scottish businessman in China and Hong Kong. He was the taipan of the Jardine Matheson & Co.
Biography
He was the son of the Thomas Keswick, and younger brother of William Keswick, who was the founder ...
.
Early proposal
The project was first proposed in 1855, but many merchants with private piers on the waterfront objected to the scheme. The first reclamation project eventually began in 1868 and was completed in 1873. It added significant land to Praya Central, which later became present-dayDes Voeux Road
Des Voeux Road Central ( Chinese: 德輔道中) and Des Voeux Road West ( Chinese: 德輔道西) are two roads on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. They were named after the 10th Governor of Hong Kong, Sir William Des Vœux. Th ...
.
Second reclamation scheme
The second project was revived by theTai-pan
A taipan (,Andrew J. Moody, "Transmission Languages and Source Languages of Chinese Borrowings in English", ''American Speech'', Vol. 71, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 414–415. literally "top class"汉英词典 — ''A Chinese-English Dictionary ...
of The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company in July 1887."A Historical and Architectural Appraisal of Queen’s Pier, Central (Annexe B3), Antiquities and Monuments Office, Government of Hong Kong SAR, accessdate=2007-12-15 It did not commence until February 1890, and as it was significantly larger than the first, the completion was between 1903 and 1904. There were discrepancies in the number of acres actually gained from the entire project: some sources claimed it added of land to
Hong Kong
Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
's Central waterfront and Statue Square
Statue Square ( zh, t=皇后像廣場; lit. "Empress' Statue Square") is a public pedestrian square in Central, Hong Kong. Built entirely on reclaimed land at the end of the 19th century, Statue Square consists of two parts separated by ...
, while some indicated that the total area was extended by using materials with a total weight of 3.5 million ton
Ton is any of several units of measure of mass, volume or force. It has a long history and has acquired several meanings and uses.
As a unit of mass, ''ton'' can mean:
* the '' long ton'', which is
* the ''tonne'', also called the ''metric ...
s.
See also
*The Hongs
A hong () was a type of Chinese merchant establishment and its associated type of building. Hongs arose in Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) as intermediaries between Western and Chinese merchants during the 18th and 19th centuries under th ...
* Land reclamation in Hong Kong
The reclamation of land from the ocean has long been used in mountainous Hong Kong to expand the limited supply of usable land with a total of around 60 square kilometres of land created by 1996. The first reclamations can be traced back to the ...
* Praya East Reclamation Scheme
Praya East Reclamation Scheme () was a large scale land reclamation project in colonial Hong Kong lasting from 1921 to 1931 under Sir Catchick Paul Chater.
* Prince's Building
Prince's Building is an office tower with a six-level shopping centre, known as Landmark Prince's. Located along the western side of the southern section of Statue Square in Central, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong near Central station (MTR), Cen ...
References
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