Double Island, Hong Kong

{{Short description|Island in the north-eastern part of Hong Kong}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} [[File:Doubleisland.png|thumb|Location of Double Island in Hong Kong]] [[File:Wong Wan Chau.jpg|thumb|View of Wong Wai Sai Teng ({{zh|t=往灣西頂|labels=no}}), a 136m high hill on Wong Wan Chau, from across Wong Wan ({{zh|t=往灣|labels=no}}) bay.]] [[File:Tung Wan, Double Island 12 Tung Wan, Double Island.jpg|thumb|Beach at Tung Wan ({{zh|t=東灣|l=East Bay|labels=no}}) of Double Island.]] [[File:Tung Wan, Double Island 21 Port Island & Wong Chuk Kok Tsui & Double Island.jpg|thumb|Coast of Double Island at Tung Wan ({{zh|t=東灣|l=East Bay|labels=no}}).]] '''Double Island''' or '''Wong Wan Chau''' ({{zh|t=往灣洲}}) is an [[island]] located in the north-eastern part of Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of [[North District, Hong Kong|North District]]. {{TOC limit|2}} ==Geography== Double Island has an area of 2.13 km².<ref>Survey and Mapping Office, Lands Department: [http://www.landsd.gov.hk/mapping/en/publications/hk_geographic_data_sheet.pdf Hong Kong geographic data sheet]</ref> It is the second largest island in North District, the largest being [[Kat O|Crooked Island]]. Its highest point is at 139 m.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/HKG/B35840158.pdf |title=K.W. Lai, S.D.G. Campbell & R. Shaw, ''Geology of the Northeastern New Territories'', p. 15, Civil Engineering Dept, Geotechnical Engineering Office, December 1996 |access-date=12 July 2011 |archive-date=12 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312095428/http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/HKG/B35840158.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Its western coast is facing [[Double Haven]].

Wong Wan ({{zh|t=往灣|labels=no}}) is a bay of Double Island. It is one of the 26 designated [[Agriculture and aquaculture in Hong Kong|marine fish culture zones]] in Hong Kong.<ref name="fisheries culture">{{cite web|url=https://www.afcd.gov.hk/english/fisheries/fish_aqu/fish_aqu_mpo/fish_aqu_mpo.html|title=Marine fish culture, pond fish culture and oyster culture |date=12 August 2019|access-date=16 December 2019|department=Fisheries Branch|publisher=Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department}}</ref>

==Conservation== Double Island became part of the [[Plover Cove (Extension) Country Park]] in 1979.<ref>[http://www.afcd.gov.hk/english/country/cou_vis/cou_vis_cou/cou_vis_cou_pc/cou_vis_cou_pc.html Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department: Plover Cove Country Park]</ref>

==Facilities== * Outward Bound Hong Kong Adventure Base

==History== ===Typhoon of 1858=== It is wrongly suggested that it was the Double Island in Hong Kong's Double Haven (Yan Chau Tong, {{zh|t=印洲塘|labels=no}}) where the September Typhoon of 1858 destroyed several well-known opium clippers, including the ''Anonyma'', ''Gazelle'', ''Pantaloon'', and ''Mazeppa''. [[Basil Lubbock]]'s ''The Opium Clippers'', cited in the original entry, is quite clear (p.347) that the [[Mayu Island|Double Island]] in question was that at what was then called Swatow (today [[Shantou]]). The island is one of two that lie in the entrance to the river at Shantou and is the inner one, then called Masu. Today it is called Mayu ({{zh|t=媽嶼島|labels=no}}). For corroboration see Mayers & Dennys,<ref>[[William Frederick Mayers]] and [[Nicholas Belfield Dennys]], ''The Treaty Ports of China and Japan'' (Hong Kong: Shortrede, 1867), p.236 </ref> for the identity of Double Island. For the typhoon and the damage to the vessels, ''The Courier'' (Hobart, Tasmania), 22 December 1858, p.3 for a report of Mr Midwood, of the Commissariat service, resident on Double Island during the typhoon.

==See also== {{portal|Islands}} * [[Mirs Bay]]

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