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Nam Fung Chau

Nam Fung Chau, also called Green Island, is an island of Hong Kong, under the administration of Sai Kung District.

Nam Fung Chau
Nam Fung Chau · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Nam Fung Chau, also called Green Island, is an island of Hong Kong, under the administration of Sai Kung District. It is located in Rocky Harbour, off the coast of High Island.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nam Fung Chau

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    High Island Reservoir

    The High Island Reservoir is the largest impounding reservoir by capacity in Hong Kong. Located in the far south eastern part of the Sai Kung Peninsula, it was opened in 1978, helping to alleviate water shortage problems in Hong Kong.

    3.7 km · reservoir in New Territories, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hung Shing Temple, Kau Sai Chau

    Hung Shing Temple, Kau Sai Chau, is a Hung Shing Temple located in Kau Sai Chau, Hong Kong. The temple was built to honor Hung Shing, a Chinese folk religion deity who is worshipped as the God of Southern Sea and believed to provide protection at sea.

    3.1 km · temple in Hong Kong · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Nam Fung Chau

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 45 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 65 km · Macau (MFM), 81 km
Stations
Rocky Harbour, 1.4 km
  • Hong Kong → Nam Fung Chau
    20 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · HK$27–36
  • Shenzhen → Nam Fung Chau
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · ¥21–27
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Nam Fung Chau
    84 km · quickest by road, 3h · $9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nam Fung Chau

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nam Fung Chau. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    473 km
  2. 02
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    711 km
  3. 03
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    741 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,018 km
  5. 05
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,078 km

If you know how people move in Nam Fung Chau – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Nam Fung Chau

Nam Fung Chau is 11 km from Tseung Kwan O, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.