Hung Hom Bay 紅磡灣 (HK)

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Hung Hom Bay (Chinese: 紅磡灣; pinyin: Hóngkàn Wān; Jyutping: hung4 ham3 waan1) was a bay in Victoria Harbour, between Tsim Sha Tsui and Hung Hom in the south of Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. Since 1850, parts of the bay were reclaimed and, by 2019, it had been completely extinguished. All of present-day Tsim Sha Tsui East and Hung Hom Station on the MTR as well as the Hung Hom Ferry Pier are on land reclaimed from the bay. The reclamation also buried several rocks, including Rumsey Rock. The bay once came inland as far as the present-day interchange of the West Kowloon Corridor and the Hung Hom Bypass.

Hung Hom Bay Post Office was opened 1989.12.20 at its current (Sept. 2019) location of: G/F, Block 14, Cherry Mansions, Whampoa Garden, Hunghom, Kowloon, Hong Kong [紅磡黃埔花園錦桃苑第14座地下].

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HUNG HOM BAY HONG KONG/3 1991.05.11