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Mirs Bay

Coordinates:22°34′N114°22′E / 22.567°N 114.367°E /22.567; 114.367
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Bay in northeast Hong Kong
For the bay in Taiwan, seeDapeng Bay.
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Mirs Bay
Traditional Chinese大鵬灣
Simplified Chinese大鹏湾
Literal meaningDapeng Bay
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDàpéng Wān
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingdaai6 paang4 waan1

Mirs Bay (also known asTai Pang Wan,Dapeng Wan,Dapeng Bay orMers Bay;traditional Chinese:大鵬灣;simplified Chinese:大鹏湾) is abay in the northeast ofKat O andSai Kung Peninsula of Hong Kong.[1] The north and east shores are surrounded byYantian andDapeng New District ofShenzhen.Ping Chau stands in the midst of the bay.

History

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Pirate junks in Mirs Bay

Mirs Bay, along with other waterways near Hong Kong, was once was home to variouscoastal defences (e.g.Dapeng Fortress) used againstpirates during theMing Dynasty.[2]

Mirs Bay was used by thenAmericanCommodore (laterAdmiral)George Washington Dewey during theSpanish–American War as a refuge and repair facility for theUS Navy.[3]

In 1949, the colonial government imposed a curfew under thePublic Order Ordinance forbidding movement ofwatercraft in Mirs Bay between 10 PM and 6 AM without written permission of theHong Kong Police Force. For purposes of the order, the dividing line betweenTolo Channel and Mirs Bay runs fromWong Chuk Kok Tsui toNgo Keng Tsui (鵝頸咀;22°27′47″N114°18′08″E / 22.4629544°N 114.3022423°E /22.4629544; 114.3022423).[4]

Features

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Within the bay are numerous smaller harbors and inlets on the Hong Kong side:

The bay includes a number of islands, with an extensive group lying in the northwestern part of the bay, including:[7]

To the south of Mirs Bay, water flows out to theSouth China Sea.

References

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  1. ^"Mirs Bay, Hong Kong, Admiralty Standard Nautical Chart 4128" (Map).Paper Chart Folio No. 50. 1:30,000. United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO). 25 October 2012.
  2. ^"Gallery 2: The Ming Period (1368-1644)". Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence. Archived fromthe original on 5 September 2013.
  3. ^Watterson, Henry (1898). "The Spanish American war: American blockade of the Philippines". In Bancroft, Hubert H. (ed.).The Great Republic by the Master Historians, Volume IV.Archived from the original on 16 March 2012.
  4. ^Public Order (Movement of Craft) Order (Cap. 245D)
  5. ^Lam, Katherine K. Y. (1999). "Hydrography, nutrients and phytoplankton, with special reference to an hypoxic event, at an experimental artificial reef at Hoi Ha Wan, Hong Kong". In Morton, Brian (ed.).Asian Marine Biology 16. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. pp. 35–64,page 36.ISBN 978-962-209-520-5.
  6. ^Au Yiu-Keung (Au, Aaron); et al. (2003)."Hoi Ha Wan – the Marine Kaleidoscope of Hong Kong"(PDF).Year 2003 Conference on "Sustainable Tourism". Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 31 December 2010. Retrieved1 September 2014.
  7. ^Findlay, Alexander G. (1878).A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan (second ed.). London: R. H. Laurie. pp. 995–998.OCLC 8674578.

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