Mount Kellett
English
Etymology
Named after Henry Kellett.
Proper noun
- A peak in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
- 2009 June 1, Charles Barman, Ray Barman, Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 63:
- After quickly loading, I arranged with Capt Otway that I take the lorries loaded with 3.7-inch and 4.5-inch shell to Mount Kellett and Sanatorium gun positions and that he move the last three lorries loaded with 6-inch How ammunition to a rendezvous point, near the vicinity of the Government Dairy Farm situated at Pokfulam, where I was to return and collect the lorries to deliver the ammunition to the gun positions at Mount Austin and Mount Gough.
- 2006 January 1, Plague, SARS and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 130:
- Matilda International Hospital ( 1907 - present ) Standing on Mount Kellett, overlooking Lamma Channel and South China Sea, Matilda Hospital is an historic building with handsome white Shanghai marble plaster walls […]
- 2023 January 19, Siobhan Daiko, The Flame Tree, Asolando Books, page :
- Will smirked to himself as he thought about them—Mount Kellett, Strawberry Hill and Mount Gough in the Peak district; Mount Cameron and Mount Nicholson enclosing Happy Valley, Mount Davis towering over the western approach to the harbour.
Related terms
- Kellett Bay, Kellett Island
Translations
peak in Hong Kong
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