Lantau Island
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- An island in Hong Kong.
- 1964, C. T. Wong, “Changes in Agricultural Land Use in Hong Kong”, in S. G. Davis, editor, Land Use Problems in Hong Kong: A Symposium, Hong Kong University Press, page 63:
- In relatively remote and inaccessible areas like Tung Chung on Lantau Island and the Northern Sai Kung peninsula—where the demand for agricultural land by immigrant farmers and urbanization and industrialization is not so great—the size of farm is not any larger than that of the densely populated areas.
- 2019 November 22, Ilaria Maria Sala, “After the Protests: How Will Hong Kong Vote?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-11-22, Opinion:
- To reach Mui Wo, a small town on Lantau Island, you take a ferry from central Hong Kong, and after a 30-minute ride arrive at a small square with a car park and bus stops blackened by fumes.
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- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lau Tao or Lan Tau”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1019, column 3
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lantau Island”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1685, column 2
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