To Kau Wan
Industrial site on north shore of Lantau Island
To Kau Wan (Chinese: 倒扣灣) is a site on the north shore of northeast Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It provides convenient access to Hong Kong International Airport, as well as a pier that accommodates barges.
In the early 21st century, To Kau Wan was used as a soil decontamination site. Contaminated soil from Cheoy Lee Shipyard at Penny's Bay was transported to a plant in To Kau Wan for cement solidification, a process which was completed in early 2003. From mid-2003, soil contaminated with total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOC) was treated there using microorganisms for biopiling.
In October 2025, the fuselage and tail section of the Boeing 747-400 freight airplane, which crashed while operating as Emirates SkyCargo Flight 9788, were transported to To Kau Wan.
“To Kau Wan” enters the record as industrial site on north shore of Lantau Island. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Industrial, site and north can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“To Kau Wan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Industrial, site and north provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7810983. Authority coordinates are 22.344, 114.043. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2025.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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Three-step research path
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This entry incorporates text from “To Kau Wan” 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.