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Anderson Road, Hong Kong
Anderson Road (traditional Chinese: 安達臣道; simpli- (present-day Sam Ka Tsuen). This road section later part-
fied Chinese: 安达臣道; pinyin: Āndáchén Dào; Cantonese ly overlapped with the Stage 3 of Wilson Trail.
Yale: ngon1 daat6 san4 dou6) is a road on the eastern The road was commented in military as a road suit-
border of the New Territories and New Kowloon in Hong able for man-handled guns.
Kong. It starts near the junction of Clear Water Bay Road
and New Clear Water Bay Road, above Shun Lee Estate,
and runs southeast windingly to Tsiu Lan Shue (蕉欄樹)
Facilities
and continues eastward on the hills above Sau Mau Ping, Only few stores, farmlands, the quarry, warehouses are
and finally ends Po Lam Road in Ma Yau Tong. located beside the road. Haven of Hope Sunnyside School
The east side of road is a hill of Tai Sheng Tok. The hill is sited on the Po Lam end of the road.
top become a large quarry, Anderson Road Quarry, and
was removed over years. The quarry, together with those
in Shek O and Lam Tei, are only three quarries still op-
Public Transports
erating in Hong Kong. As the quarry is on the ridge sur- Since the cancellation of KMB Bus Route 90 (Tiu Keng
rounding Kowloon, it is considered that the quarry dam- LengChoi Hung) at 1996, there is no any public trans-
ages the beauty and the fungshui of Victoria Harbour. Re- ports by way of Anderson Road. However, you may take
covering effort, including plantation, is in progress. the buses which will go to the destination via Po Lam
Road or Clear Water Bay Road and get off at Anderson
Road bus stop.
History
The road is one of earliest roads that built by British
Army after British got the lease of New Territories from
See also
Qing in 1899. It is named after William John Anderson, • List of streets and roads in Hong Kong
Controller of Stores in Government Supplies of Hong
Kong Government. External links
The original road was more longer than its present.
After reaching Lau Tong, present-day Ma Yau Tong, it ran • Hong Kong map
south to west slope of Black Hill and Hai Wan (present- • Google Maps of Anderson Road
day Chiu Keng Wan Shan). It further went south to near Coordinates: 22°19′37″N 114°14′11″E / 22.3269°N
the top of Devil’s Peak and ended near Sam Ka Tsun 114.2363°E / 22.3269; 114.2363
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Categories:
• Roads in Hong Kong
• Shun Lee
• Sau Mau Ping
• Ma Yau Tong
• Po Lam
• New Territories
• New Kowloon
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