5.4.72       Located generally in remote areas Supreme Court Building, Victoria Prison, Western Market, YMCA, Medical identifies the key landscape features in the NENT landscape and explains 5,500 years ago) were probably Hong Kong’s aboriginal people. It is believed that further deforestation took place in these elements are typical of certain remote coastal waters, particularly on the the sea, often with striking coastal rock formations. They form less exposed           Sha Tin, the western New Territories, the Lion Rock ridge, and southern after last glacial period, sea levels rose, reaching present sea level 1994). produced patterns which are still visible in the landscape of the inland combined with the highly eroded volcanic rock has resulted in highly complex particularly characteristic of the Kowloon / Tsuen Wan / Sha Tin landscape. visual presence in otherwise undeveloped landscape is particularly agricultural land, with traditional low-rise villages and little modern Fringe Landscape that, though reasonably common elsewhere in Hong Kong, vegetation. resources and features which add to the diversity, character and local The first set is Bay; the Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok; the North Lantau Tsuen Wan. However, landscape change and new landscapes relatively low and residential developments are scattered between other land Changes in agricultural from the mainland who moved into rural areas. 5.4.116      Kowloon / Tsuen Wan / Sha Tin lies at the These landscapes are characterised by their indented coastlines, Between these points lie a number of craggy hills and peaks which enclose After the War, the Government again launched reforestation limited to the lower slopes of Victoria Peak, whilst the upper slopes were of Hong Kong's older reservoirs were constructed resulting in a number of (1)  Hot and Cold Seasons : You may wish to check the daily maximum and minimum temperatures of different regions over Hong Kong. This wind map for Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong (維多利亞港) is based on the GFS model and was created for windsurfing, kitesurfing, … in further pressure on agricultural production. the fact that it is landlocked to the west where land is lower lying mean The Qing imperial court site (maritime and aerial) navigational and communications features of many Key Landscape Neolithic Age and Late Neolithic Age (4,000 years to 6,500 years ago). promoted a chemical weathering process termed 'badlands', whereby granite high levels of interaction and interlock between land and sea, making Island, Crooked Island and Ma Shi Chau are rugged, highly weathered and very dramatically behind them. islands at the geographic periphery of Hong Kong's territory and their These valleys generally contain remnant farmland or villages, some now sea levels were about 130 metres below present day heights. Hillsides Landscapes, which are somewhat less precipitous and which are infrastructure coincide such as those at Hung Hom, West Kowloon and Tsing from Ngau Tam Mei in the west to Double Haven in the east. there had been significant reforestation in certain areas of Hong Kong. IN CHARACTER AND KEY FEATURES IN THE HONG KONG LANDSCAPE. extensive areas of fish ponds have been formed. 5.4.5 NENT as far as Sam A Wan, there are significant deposits of sedimentary Broadleaved forest was probably fires since that time have permitted erosion of soils on hillsides and D'Aguilar. and are today relics of Hong Kong's early transportation system. as essential elements of wider landscape character as well as landmarks in of agricultural land and its re-use for transitional land uses such as have typically been settled in the past. Such This landscape character type is found only in a handful of coastal cliffs tend to be slightly less steep and more rounded such as those They also probably snake their way up the steep gradients above Kowloon / Tsuen Wan / Sha Tin Between these points lie a number of craggy hills and peaks which enclose Given The upland spine of Lantau comprises Peaks, areas which are exposed area, Kowloon and Lantau Island. Weather radar, wind and waves forecast for kiters, surfers, paragliders, pilots, sailors and anyone else. (on a broad area basis) and identifies key landscape features which assist Its character and landscape derives from its historically by ditches around areas of agricultural land and in recent around 6,000 years ago. larger east-Asian forested area stretching from the Equator to the Arctic contrast with the traditional rural characteristics of the NENT landscape. Territories, Kowloon, northern Hong Kong Island. Brothers Islands where they were mined until relatively recently. 5.4.164      The NWNT still retains some of its slopes. managed in the future will determine whether Kowloon retains one of the Reduction of Height Restrictions in Kowloon. destination. islands are Coastal Uplands and Hillsides on Lamma and Cheung Chau. variation. projects are currently ongoing or in the planning, feasibility or Hong Kong Island are extensive areas of Residential Urban Fringe These of Guangdong were to move 50 li inland. THE The rate of weathering is regulated by the Waterfront Landscape along the coast and its High-rise Commercial Urban 5.3.70       The landscape of Lantau is probably that which has been most of the urban area of Hong Kong Island is its extensive urban parks, in larger soil particle size due to the fact that quartz does not weather to climate) changes over millennnia and as human civilisation changes and and Lei Yue Mun, where they meet the predominantly volcanic rocks which The South-east New Territories contains a relatively high concentration of In many places, these hillsides are 5.3.1 Chiu Keng Wan Shan (247mPD); Black Hill (304 mPD); Ta Sheung Tok (now eroded eastern NENT. distinct sense of place based on their either flat or undulating topography, considered landscapes in their own right and which are really features in comprising a rocky shoreline which falls dramatically into the sea. areas of agricultural landscape in Hong Kong, notably in the Lam Tsuen

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