Tung Chung Battery

Tung Chung Battery
Native name
Chinese: 東涌小炮台
Tung Chung Battery
LocationLantau Island, Hong Kong
Built1817; 207 years ago (1817)
Designated11 November 1983; 40 years ago (1983-11-11)
Reference no.22
Tung Chung Battery
Traditional Chinese東涌小炮台
Simplified Chinese东涌小炮台
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDōngchōng Xiǎo Pàotái
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationDūng chūng síu paau tòih
JyutpingDung1 cung1 siu2 paau3 toi4

Tung Chung Battery is a former artillery battery located on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. Named after the eponymous district it is situated in, it was built in 1817, twenty-four years before the British took possession of Hong Kong. It was rediscovered in 1980 and is a declared monument of Hong Kong.