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Kowloon City Ferry Pier

pier in Kowloon, Hong Kong

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2021
Entity authorityQ6435042 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kowloon City Ferry Pier (Chinese: 九龍城碼頭) is a ferry pier in Ma Tau Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is at the north of Hoi Sham Park and the east of East Kowloon Corridor.

History

The pier started operation in 1956 and was the first permanent pier in Hong Kong built after World War II. It had ferry services to Wan Chai, North Point and Tai Koo Shing (later Sai Wan Ho) and a vehicular ferry service to North Point (ceased operation in 1998).

Current transportation

The pier currently has only one ferry service, to North Point, operated by New World First Ferry. There is a bus terminus outside the pier.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kowloon, City and Ferry can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kowloon City Ferry Pier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.