Mount Gough () is a peak on

Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island () is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong. The island, known originally and on road signs simply as "Hong Kong", had a population of 1,289,500 and a population density of , . It is the second largest island in Hong Kon ...

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 ...

. It lies directly east of

Victoria Peak Victoria Peak ( zh, t=太平山, j=taai3 ping4 saan1) is a hill on the western half of Hong Kong Island. It is also known as Mount Austin, and locally as The Peak only generally. With an elevation of , it is the tallest hill on Hong Kong Isla ...

and rises to a height of above Admiralty. It is named for

Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, (3 November 1779 – 2 March 1869) was a senior British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer at the seizure of the Cape of Good Hope during the French Revolutionary Wars, Gough commanded ...

, Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in China. The summit is now occupied by a housing complex so is inaccessible to the general public.

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Victoria Peak

Gough Gough ( ) is a surname. The surname may derive from the Welsh language, Welsh (English: "red"),Farrar-Hockley 1974, pp. 2–3 possibly given as a nickname to someone with red hair or a red complexion. Another possible derivation is that it was a ...

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