Fortress
Shing Mun Redoubt
🇨🇳 China
Shing Mun Redoubt (English: Shing Mun Redoubt), also known as the Shing Mun fortifications, was an important military installation of Hong Kong in the past and formed part of the Gin Drinkers Line; it is located in the New Territories in the area of Smugglers' Ridge, south of the Shing Mun Reservoir in Shing Mun valley and north of Golden Hill. In December 2009 the Antiquities Advisory Board graded the Shing Mun fortifications in "the area south of the Shing Mun Reservoir and Kam Shan Country Park in the New Territories" as a Grade II historic building of Hong Kong.
Machine-translated from “城門棱堡” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shing Mun Redoubt ranks #7,086 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #83 of the 119 mapped in China. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Hong Kong, 11 km away. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Shing Mun Redoubt?
Shing Mun Redoubt stands in China, at 22.37658°, 114.14641°.
How famous is Shing Mun Redoubt?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,086 of 8,134 worldwide, and #83 in China. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Shing Mun Redoubt?
Murray Battery, about 11 km away.
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