Magazine Gap Road is a winding road on the affluent and ultra-expensive
Mid-Levels and
the Peak on the
Hong Kong Island in
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
. It is one of the main access leading to the Peak area.
Description
It starts low from
Robinson Road Robinson Road may refer to
*Robinson Road, Hong Kong
*Robinson Road (Mississippi), a historical road in the US state of Mississippi
*Robinson Road, Singapore
*Former name of Nathan Road
Nathan Road is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kon ...
and
Garden Road. It runs east and uphill and meets
Bowen Road and
May Road. It continues and meets the junction with
Coombe Road
Coombe is an alternate spelling of combe, a dry valley.
It may also refer to:
Places Australia
* Coombe, South Australia, a locality in the Coorong District Council England
* Coombe, Buckinghamshire
* Coombe, Camborne, Cornwall
* Coombe, Gwenn ...
and
Peak Road at . It ends in , where , a Japanese war shrine, was built during Japanese occupation of the territory between 1941 and 1945. It was destroyed in 1947, shortly after the
Liberation of Hong Kong
Liberation or liberate may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Liberation'' (film series), a 1970–1971 series about the Great Patriotic War
* "Liberation" (''The Flash''), a TV episode
* "Liberation" (''K-9''), an episode
Gaming
* '' Liberati ...
.
With road connections nearby, vehicles can reach either north or south of the island through roads in
Wan Chai Gap and
Wong Nai Chung Gap
Wong Nai Chung Gap () is a geographic gap in the middle of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The gap is between Mount Nicholson and Jardine's Lookout behind Wong Nai Chung (Happy Valley). Five roads meet at the gap: Wong Nai Chung Gap Road, Tai ...
.
Intersections
See also
*
List of streets and roads in Hong Kong § Hong Kong Island
*
Grenville House
Grenville House is a mid-rise (14 floors) apartment complex at 1-3 Magazine Gap Road in the Mid-levels area of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong and completed in 1971.
From 1997 to 2006 a four bedroom unit belonging to Tung Chee-hwa served as the offic ...
*
Zig-zag
*
Stubbs Road
References
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Roads on Hong Kong Island
Victoria Peak
Mid-Levels