The street is noted for the many landmarks that it runs past, namely Central Market and the headquarters of the Hang Seng Bank.

During the First Opium War, the British occupied Hong Kong in 1841 and one year later, the territory was ceded to them in the Treaty of Nanking.

The street is named after Queen Victoria, who was the reigning British monarch at the time Hong Kong was colonised.

[3] This was in spite of a statement by the Urban Council declaring it generally had no intention of modifying the names of streets that bore colonial references.

It then reaches the intersection with Des Voeux Road Central; the next segment of the street ascends up a slope southwards.