[1] Tai A Chau is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.

[1] In 1937, Walter Schofield, then a Cadet Officer in the Hong Kong Civil Service, wrote "There is a shrimp paste factory here which exports to Europe and America".

[5] They were then moved to the notorious Whitehead Detention Centre in Wu Kai Sha,[6] before immigrating to the US under their “Resettlement Opportunity for Vietnamese Returnees Scheme”.

[1] In February 2023 the Hong Kong Police Force carried out a crowd control training exercise on the island, leaving hundreds of spent tear gas grenades and debris from other crowd control weapons on the protected South Lantau Marine Park site.

[8] Two helicopter landing pads and a small jetty remain from the island's former detention centre.