Sulphur Channel

The Sulphur Channel is a narrow inshore passage between Green Island and the northwest tip (West Point) of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.

The channel was named after HMS Sulphur,[1] a bomb vessel commanded by Edward Belcher who took the first British survey to Hong Kong harbour on 25 January 1841.

Captain Belcher left HMS Sulphur with a landing party on 26 January 1841, disembarked on the northern foreshore, and raised the Union Jack over Hong Kong at Possession Point (what is today Hollywood Road Park).

[2] In the 1990s, the Hong Kong Government had planned to reclaim the channel but withdrew later due to opposition from environmental concern groups.

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