Mount Parker

Named after Sir William Parker, Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy).

Mount Parker

1. A peak in Eastern district, Hong Kong.
   • 1993 June 1, Jinbong Kim, Dwight P. Baker, J. Nelson Jennings, Megachurch Accountability in Missions:: Critical Assessment through Global Case Studies, William Carey Publishing, →ISBN, page 79:

     Church members climb up to “Jacob's Ladder” on Mount Parker at Hong Kong's Quarry Bay to pray for peace and harmony in the city.

   • 2003 February 16, “Corrections”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 September 2023‎:

     A picture caption on Feb. 2 with an article about hiking in Hong Kong misstated the location of the trail shown. It is on Mount Parker, overlooking Quarry Bay on the northeast side of the island - not on the Dragon's Back ridge on the D'Aguilar Peninsula to the southeast.

   • 2014, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 195:

     The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.

   • 2019 July 15, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

     The battalion moved quickly inland, ascending the north-facing slopes of Mount Parker. There are still old stepped paths that lead up from that part of the Island shore to the heights of Mount Parker.

   • 2023 September 7, Meaghan Tobin, “Extreme rain in Hong Kong turns city streets into raging rivers”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 27, 2024, Asia‎:

     Rubble and water rushed down the side of Mount Parker near Chai Wan, where roads and parking garages sat under standing water. Huge rocks blocked roads in Shau Kei Wan.

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