Fortress
Tung Chung Battery
🇨🇳 China · 19th century
Tung Chung Battery is a former artillery battery located on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. Named after the eponymous district it is situated in, it was built in 1817, twenty-four years before the British took possession of Hong Kong. It was rediscovered in 1980 and is a declared monument of Hong Kong.
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Tung Chung Battery ranks #3,974 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #64 of the 120 mapped in China. Founded 1817, it is older than 13% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 407 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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