Penny’s Bay
Penny's Bay or Chok Ko Wan is a bay in north-eastern Lantau Island, and had been a port since the Ming dynasty. The bay has since been reclaimed and is the site of the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, which consists of the Hong Kong Disneyland theme park, Disneyland Hotel, and Disney's Hollywood Hotel, and the Inspiration Lake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: Area of Lantau Island, Hong Kong
- Also known as: “Chok Ko Wan” and “Zhugao Wan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hong Kong Disneyland and Penny’s Bay Power Station.
Hong Kong Disneyland
Theme park
Photo: Ngchikit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hong Kong Disneyland is a theme park located on reclaimed land in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It opened to visitors on Monday, September 12, 2005, at 13:00 HKT, the second Disneyland in Asia to open after Tokyo Disneyland in 1983, with Shanghai Disneyland later opening in 2016.
Penny’s Bay Power Station
Power station
Photo: Summa06, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Penny's Bay Power Station is a gas turbine power station in Penny's Bay, Hong Kong. The HKD 1.1 billion power station was commissioned on 25 March 1992.
Iron Man Experience
Public building
Photo: Ngchikit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iron Man Experience is a 3-D motion simulator attraction in Tomorrowland at Hong Kong Disneyland, which opened on 11 January 2017. The attraction is based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe character Iron Man, becoming the first Disney attraction to be based on a Marvel property.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Luk Keng Tsuen and Fa Peng.
Luk Keng Tsuen
Hamlet
Photo: Ricky36, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Luk Keng Village or Luk Keng Tsuen is a village located on the Yam O peninsula on Lantau Island in the New Territories of Hong Kong, which links to Cheung Sok, a nearby uninhabited island, via the "Angel's Road," a tombolo path accessible only at low tide.
Fa Peng
Hamlet
Fa Peng is a village located on the Tsing Chau Tsai Peninsula of Lantau Island, in the Tsuen Wan District of Hong Kong. The village is below Fa Peng Teng, in Chinese meaning flower flask because of the rock formation that’s shaped like a flower flask.
Penny’s Bay
- Categories: human settlement, former bay of Hong Kong, and body of water
- Location: Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Penny’s Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Penny’s Bay”
- Chinese: “竹篙湾”
- Chinese: “竹篙灣”
- Dutch: “Penny’s Bay”
- Esperanto: “Penca Golfo”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chuk-kô-vân”
- Japanese: “竹篙湾”
- Swedish: “Penny’s Bay”
- Wu Chinese: “竹篙灣”
- Yue Chinese: “竹篙灣”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and Sunny Bay station.
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