Mount Kellett
Mount Kellett is a 501-metre-high mountain on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It was likely named after British Royal Navy Vice Admiral Henry Kellett, the captain of HMS Starling in the 19th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 501 metres
- Description: mountain on Hong Kong Island
- Also known as: “雞籠環山”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Matilda International Hospital and Victoria Peak.
Matilda International Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Lookchard, Public domain.
Matilda International Hospital is a not-for-profit hospital in Hong Kong located at 41 Mount Kellett Road, The Peak, Hong Kong Island. The hospital was built as a result of the last will and testament of Granville Sharp, the husband of Matilda Lincolne Sharp.
Victoria Peak
Peak
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Victoria Peak is a hill on the western half of Hong Kong Island. It is also known as Mount Austin, and locally as The Peak only generally. With an elevation of 552 metres, it is the tallest hill on Hong Kong Island, and the 29th tallest in the territory of Hong Kong.
Madame Tussauds Hong Kong
Museum
Madame Tussauds Hong Kong is a wax museum situated in the Peak Tower on Hong Kong Island. It opened in 2000 and was the first branch of the Madame Tussauds museum to be established in Asia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pok Fu Lam and Kellett Bay.
Pok Fu Lam
Village
Photo: Minghong, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pok Fu Lam or Pokfulam is a residential area on Hong Kong Island, at the western end of the Southern District. It is a valley between Victoria Peak and Mount Kellett, around Telegraph Bay.
Kellett Bay
Quarter
Photo: Keka410, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kellett Bay, or Kai Lung Wan is a bay on southwestern Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong, to the southeast of Waterfall Bay. The pronunciation of Wan in Kai Lung Wan in the Cantonese language is like the one in 環.
Shek Pai Wan
Locality
Photo: Wing1990hk, CC BY 3.0.
Shek Pai Wan or Aberdeen Bay is a bay between Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island and Ap Lei Chau. Its name was formerly romanized as Shekpywan. The bay is one of the traditional fishery ports because the hills on two sides forms a nature shelter.
Mount Kellett
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Central and Western District, Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.26169° or 22° 15′ 42″ northLongitude
114.1486° or 114° 8′ 55″ eastElevation
501 metres (1,644 feet)Open location code
7PJP746X+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 307619907OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Kellett from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Mount Kellett” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Kellett”
- Chinese: “加列山”
- Chinese: “奇力山”
- Chinese: “鷄籠山”
- Dutch: “Mount Kellett”
- Ladin: “Mont Kellett”
- Swedish: “Mount Kellett”
- Yue Chinese: “加列山”
- Yue Chinese: “奇力山”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Mount Kellett and Jardine’s Corner.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Artillery Observation Post and Victoria Peak Fire Station.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Kellett”. Photo: Exploringlife, CC BY-SA 4.0.