Belcher Bay

Belcher Bay

Belcher Bay (Chinese: 卑路乍灣) is a bay at Kennedy Town on the northwest shore of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is east of Sulphur Channel. The bay is named after Edward Belcher, who surveyed the surrounding water and land in the Victoria Harbour in 1841.

ee also

* Belcher's Street


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