Shek Pai Wan

Shek Pai Wan
Shek Pai Wan in 2015
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Literal meaningStone Row Bay
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShípáiwān
Wade–GilesShih-pai-wan
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationSehk pàaih wāan
JyutpingSek6 paai4 waan1 or waan4

Shek Pai Wan or Aberdeen Bay is a bay between Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island and Ap Lei Chau (formerly Aberdeen Island). Its name was formerly romanized as Shekpywan.[1] The bay is one of the traditional fishery ports because the hills on two sides forms a nature shelter. The whole bay is zoned as the Aberdeen West Typhoon Shelter.

Currently, Shek Pai Wan usually refers to Shek Pai Wan Estate, a public housing estate in Aberdeen.

  1. ^ "Hong-Kong", Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. XII (9th ed.), 1878, pp. 141–2.