Tsing Yi Bay was a bay on the east side of Hong Kong's Tsing Yi Island, beside the Rambler Channel, approximately on the site of modern-day

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. The whole bay was reclaimed for the development of

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. Before reclamation, it was surrounded by places known as

Tsing Leng Tsui Tsing Leng Tsui () is a former cape (geography), cape on Tsing Yi, Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong between the former Tsing Yi Bay and the Rambler Channel. After several phases of Land reclamation in Hong Kong, reclamation, the cape lost its shape and be ...

, Sheung Ko Tan (上高灘), Ha Chung Mei, Tai Wong Ha and Tsing Yi Town. The names of these places have since changed, and can now be translated, approximately, as Grand Horizon, Green Field Garden, Fung Shue Wo Road,

Tsing Yi Estate Tsing Yi Estate () is a public housing estate in Tsing Yi Island, New Territories, Hong Kong near Fung Shue Wo Sports Centre and Tsing Yi Park. It is the only public housing estate on Tsing Yi Island which name does not start with the character ...

and

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Silting up

The mud and sand in the stream of Liu To settled on the shores of Tsing Yi Bay. A marsh formed at the mouth of the stream and the water in the bay became shallower and shallower. Finally, an

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developed between Tsing Yi Town and Sheung Ko Tan. The inner water is now separated from the bay outside the isthmus to become Tsing Yi Lagoon.

Reclamation

In the 1980s, the

Hong Kong Government The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (commonly known as the Hong Kong Government or HKSAR Government) is the Executive (government), executive authorities of Hong Kong. It was established on 1 July 1997, following the ...

started to reclaim the bay in three phases. The bay has now been completely reclaimed and the shore has been straightened from Nga Ying Chau to

References

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