Blackhead Point

Blackhead Point

Blackhead Point, also known as Tai Pau Mai (zh-c|c=大包米) indigenously, Tsim Sha Tsui Point or Signal Hill (zh-t|t=訊號山), is a cape before any reclamation in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was named after a German businessman in Hong Kong named Friedrich Johan Berthold Schwarzkopf, who naturalised as a British citizen and anglicised his name as Blackhead.

It was where typhoon signals were hoisted in Hong Kong because it is the highest hill near the middle of Victoria Harbour. It remains as a small hill near the coast. From 1908 to 1933, the time ball tower of the Hong Kong Observatory was located on the hill.

External links

* [http://partnernet.hktourismboard.com/pnweb/jsp/comm/index.jsp?charset=en&pageContent=%2Fjsp%2Fmodule%2FHKEN%2FHKpictYTMD.jsp Details from Hong Kong Tourism Board website]
*PDFlink| [http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/44/4402104.pdf THE GERMAN SPEAKING COMMUNITY IN HONG KONG 1846-1918, by CARL T. SMITH]


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