Hei Ling Chau

Hei Ling Chau

Hei Ling Chau (zh-t|t=喜靈洲, Pinyin: Xilingzhou), formerly Hayling Chau, is an island of Hong Kong, located east of Silver Mine Bay and Chi Ma Wan of Lantau Island. It is also south of Peng Chau and north of Cheung Chau. Its companion, Sunshine Island, is at its northeast. With an area of 1.93 km², and the highest hill heighted 187m, it is administratively part of the Islands District. The island is L-shaped with angle pointed northeast.

Southwest water of the island is zoned as Hei Ling Chau Typhoon Shelter. Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre occupies the north-western part of the island and students often get a chance to visit the island by joining preventive drug education programs.

The eastern part, on the other end, hosted medium-security Hei Ling Chau Correctional Institiute and mid-northern minimum security Lai Sun Correctional Institution. The Hei Ling Chau Addiction Treatment Centre(Annex) is located at the southest end of the Island.

Lai Sun Correctional Institution is the first Vocational Training Centre in the Correctional Services Department that aims to train inmates develop useful and market-oriented vocational skills before re-integrated into the society.

In 2004, the Hong Kong Government proposed to spend HKD$12 billion to build a "super jail" on the island. The proposal was strongly opposed by the general public and experts alike, and thus has been shelved indefinitely.

Currently, CLP is investigating to construct the second Commercial Wind Turbine on Hei Ling Chau Island in order to promote the use of re-generating energy in Hong Kong.

An endemic species Bogadek's legless lizard (Dibamus bogadeki) is first discovered by a priest on the island.

Transport

There is kai-to from Peng Chau operated by Coral Sea Ferry. It costs HK$9 for single-trip.

See also

* Islands of Hong Kong
* Outlying Islands

External links

* [http://www.wwf.org.hk/eng/conservation/env_policy/green_policies/prison.html Environmental concern of the super jail (WWF HK)]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&t=k&ll=22.250097,114.038043&spn=0.017914,0.028925&om=1 Aerial image from Google Map]


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