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| Traditional Chinese | 皇后大道東 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 皇后大道东 | ||||||||||||
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Queen's Road East (Chinese:皇后大道東;Jyutping:wong4 hau6 daai6 dou6 dung1) is a street inWan Chai, in the north ofHong Kong Island, Hong Kong, connectingAdmiralty in the west toHappy Valley in the east. Queen's Road East is one of the four sections ofQueen's Road, and historically includedQueensway.
Queen's Road East forks to the south from Queensway near Justice Drive, where Queensway turns intoHennessy Road. It runs along the old northern shoreline of Hong Kong Island.[1] It ends in the east atWong Nai Chung Road in Happy Valley.[2]
The settlement of Wan Chai began in pre-British times as a small Chinese community aroundthe present Hung Shing Temple on Queen's Road East.[3] The temple was probably built in 1847 and may have existed previously as a shrine.[4] Originally built next to the shoreline, facing the sea,[4] it is now surrounded by clusters of residential and commercial buildings, as the consequence of successiveland reclamation.[5]
Queen's Road East was first developed into a European commercial and residential centre after the arrival of the British in 1841. It had become a mainly Chinese residential, labouring and shop-keeping community by the 1860s.[1]
The eastern part of the road was cut throughMorrison Hill, which formerly separated Wanchai from Happy Valley. This section was known as 'Gap Road'. That name was still in use around 1930, even though the high land to the north of the 'gap' was levelled in the 1920s and the materials used to reclaim land from the harbour, under thePraya East Reclamation Scheme.[6]
Although associated with Queen's Road Central and Queen's Road West, the name 'Queen's Road East' has been in use since at least the 1870s.[7]
The following list follows a west-east order. (N) indicates the northern side of the street, while (S) indicates the southern side.
Most streets and lanes having a northern junction with Queen's Road East connect withJohnston Road, located northward. The exceptions are Anton Street, McGregor Street and Wood Road. Since Queen's Road East runs mostly along the original shoreline of Hong Kong Island, these streets have been built on earlyland reclamation. The streets and lanes connecting with the north side of Queen's Road East are from west to east:
The only street crossing with Queen's Road East, i.e. having both north and south junctions with the Road, isShip Street. The streets and lanes connecting with the south side of Queen's Road East are from west to east:
The 1991 song, also titled "Queen's Road East" (皇后大道東), by Taiwanese singerLo Ta-yu and Hong Kong singer-composerRam Chiang makes references to thehandover of Hong Kong to China.
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