Queen's Road, Hong Kong

Queen's Road
Queen's Road Central at the junction of Duddell Street, ca. 1900
Native name皇后大道 (Yue Chinese)
LocationVictoria, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°16′51″N 114°09′22″E / 22.2808°N 114.1560°E / 22.2808; 114.1560
Construction
Construction start1841; 183 years ago (1841)
Completion1843; 181 years ago (1843)
Map
Queen's Road, Hong Kong
A painting of Queen's Road Central in 1865
Chinese皇后大道
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationwong4 hau6 daai6 dou6

Queen's Road is a collection of roads along the northern coast of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong, within the limit of Victoria City. It was the first road in Hong Kong, constructed by the British between 1841 and 1843,[1] spanning across Victoria City from Shek Tong Tsui to Wan Chai.

At various points along the route, Queen's Road marks the original shoreline before land reclamation projects permanently extended land into Victoria Harbour.

The four sections of the roads are, from west to east: Queen's Road West (Chinese: 皇后大道西), Queen's Road Central (皇后大道中), Queensway (金鐘道), and Queen's Road East (皇后大道東).

  1. ^ Lim, Patricia Pui Huen (2002). Discovering Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage: Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. Oxford University Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780195927238.