Urmston Road

Urmston Road (Chinese: 龍鼓水道, literally 'Dragon Drum Channel', also named as 暗士頓水道) is a broad body of water between Lantau Island and Tuen Mun in Hong Kong.

[1] Urmston Road contains a number of small islands and rocks, which confine the main shipping fairway to a relatively narrow course along the north side.

It is occasionally used as an alternative route for the ferry service between Hong Kong and Macau in times of heavy weather from the south.

A significant development in the area was the building in the 1990s of the new Hong Kong International Airport, almost entirely on reclaimed land around a rocky islet called Chek Lap Kok to the north of Lantau.

This was followed by a tunnel crossing under Urmston Road connecting Chek Lap Kok to Tuen Mun that was complete in 2022.

View of Urmston Road from Ting Kau Bridge