Fortress Hill
Fortress Hill or Pau Toi Shan is a hill and an area on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Fortress Hill includes the western part of North Point lying west of Oil Street, and the eastern part of Causeway Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Clementi Secondary School and Fortress Hill station.
Clementi Secondary School
School
Clementi Secondary School is a secondary institution in Fortress Hill, North Point, Hong Kong. Founded by the 17th British governor of Hong Kong, Sir Cecil Clementi, the school was the first to use Chinese as the primary medium of instruction in Hong Kong.
Fortress Hill station
Metro station
Photo: Qwer132477, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fortress Hill is a station on the Island line of the Hong Kong MTR system. The station is located in the Fortress Hill section of Hong Kong on the eponymous island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tin Hau and North Point.
Tin Hau
Quarter
Photo: Strasheurm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tin Hau is an area in Wan Chai District, on the north side of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. Tin Hau is not a formalised district in Hong Kong, but rather Causeway Bay proper.
North Point
Suburb
Photo: Baycrest, CC BY-SA 2.5.
North Point is a mixed-use urban area in the Eastern District of Hong Kong. Located in the northeastern part of Hong Kong Island, the area is named after a cape between Causeway Bay and Tsat Tsz Mui that projects towards Kowloon Bay.
Causeway Bay
Suburb
Photo: simonsmith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Causeway Bay is an area and a bay on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, straddling the border of the Eastern and the Wan Chai districts. It is a major shopping, leisure and cultural centre in Hong Kong, with a number of major shopping centres.
Fortress Hill
- Type: Quarter with 15,500 residents
- Description: hill in Hong Kong
- Categories: hill and locality
- Location: Eastern District, Hong Kong, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.28739° or 22° 17′ 15″ northLongitude
114.19454° or 114° 11′ 40″ eastPopulation
15,500Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)Open location code
7PJP75PV+XROpenStreetMap ID
node 255829197OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
7778986Wikidata ID
Q5472724
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Fortress Hill” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Pàotái shān”
- Chinese: “炮台山”
- Chinese: “炮臺山”
- Chinese: “砲台山”
- Dutch: “Fortress Hill”
- Japanese: “フォートレスヒル”
- Japanese: “炮台山”
- Vietnamese: “Đồi Pháo đài”
- Yue Chinese: “炮台山”
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