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The Sulphur Channel is a narrow inshore passage between Green Island and the northwest tip (West Point) of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The Sulphur Channel is mainly used by small craft and inter-island ferries passing between Victoria Harbour and the East Lamma Channel.
The channel was named after HMS Sulphur,[1] a bomb vessel commanded by Edward Belcher who took the first British survey to Hong Kong harbour on 25 January 1841. Captain Belcher left HMS Sulphur with a landing party on 26 January 1841, disembarked on the northern foreshore, and raised the Union Jack over Hong Kong at Possession Point (what is today Hollywood Road Park). After raising a toast to the Queen with his companions, he officially declared the island the property of Her Majesty Queen Victoria and a Colony of the British Empire.[2]
In the 1990s, the Hong Kong Government had planned to reclaim the channel but withdrew later due to opposition from environmental concern groups.[3]
- ^ Bard, Solomon (2002). "Introduction". Voices from the Past: Hong Kong, 1842-1918. Hong Kong University Press. p. 1. ISBN 9622095747. OCLC 49785200.
- ^ Rao, Jiucai (2003). 香港地名探索 [Hong Kong Place Name Exploration] (in Chinese). Cosmos Books Ltd. ISBN 9789629502614.
- ^ "港府顺应民情保留青洲及硫磺海峡 西区填海大削六成" [The Hong Kong government retains Green Island and Sulphur Channel in accordance with the needs of the people, and the reclamation of the western district has greatly reduced by 60%]. Hong Kong Commercial Daily (in Chinese). 2000-10-15. Archived from the original on 2005-10-03. Retrieved 2023-06-04.