Meaning of Mount Kellett | Babel Free

Definitions

A peak in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

Examples

“After quickly loading, I arranged with Capt Otway that I take the lorries loaded with 3.7-inch and 4.5-inch shell to Mount Kellett and Sanatorium gun positions and that he move the last three lorries loaded with 6-inch How ammunition to a rendezvous point, near the vicinity of the Government Dairy Farm situated at Pokfulam, where I was to return and collect the lorries to deliver the ammunition to the gun positions at Mount Austin and Mount Gough.”

“Matilda International Hospital (1907–present) Standing on Mount Kellett, overlooking Lamma Channel and South China Sea, Matilda Hospital is an historic building with handsome white Shanghai marble plaster walls, and was opened in 1907.”

“Details were recorded by an eyewitness, L. Gibbs, and published in the quarterly Hong Kong Naturalist, in 1931. In his account, Gibbs, who was living on Mount Kellett in 1893, vividly described the effects of several days of extreme cold on Hong Kong Island’s upper altitudes.”

“Will smirked to himself as he thought about them—Mount Kellett, Strawberry Hill and Mount Gough in the Peak district; Mount Cameron and Mount Nicholson enclosing Happy Valley, Mount Davis towering over the western approach to the harbour.”

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