East Point (Hongkong)
East Point (Chinese东 角) is a former cape on the north coast of Hong Kong Iceland. It separated the bays Wan Chai and Causeway Bay, however, is entirely surrounded by land after which backfilling. The place is now part of Causeway Bay and the name East Point is no longer in use.
East Point was the easternmost part of Victoria City and peaked at Kellett Iceland in Victoria Harbour into it. The Jardine Matheson Holdings bought several plots of land to build on warehouses and other buildings. Run by the Jardines Noonday Gun has its location today in East Point. The East Point Road and the Commercial Building East Point Centre testify today on the location of the former Cape.
History
From the 1870s, the Jardine Matheson - subsidiary China Sugar Refining Company operated a sugar factory on the current Sugar Street. In addition to the refining of cane sugar from Java, the Philippines and the Straits Settlements put the factory also produces rum. Beginning of the 20th century, the sugar factory was closed because they could not compete with their competitors.
The entrepreneur and opium traders Lee Hysan bought 1923 East Point Hill or Jardine 's Hill, a hill adjacent to the Cape, and built on an amusement park. The hill was named by Lee Garden (Chinese利 园), is now obtained in the name of Lee Garden Road. In 1953, the Lee family the hill leveled and sold some land to investors who built houses. In the northern part of the East Point Hill Hennessy Centre today Hysan Place was built, and in the southern part of the Hysan Avenue, the Lee Gardens, Manulife Plaza today.
Land Reclamation
East Point was surrounded by various projects of new land. After the Jardines enlarged the Cape in the 19th century, was filled in the bay of Wan Chai in the 1920s in the Praya East Reclamation Scheme and the Cape from the west integrated into the new shoreline. For the construction of the Victoria Park opened in 1952 was filled in in the East Bay, Causeway Bay, to a canal, which was then also filled in the construction of the Gloucester Road. Around 1970, the area was filled north of East Point to Kellett Iceland to build the Cross - Harbour Tunnel.