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Shek Pai Wan
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Traditional Chinese石排灣
Simplified Chinese石排湾
Literal meaningStone Row Bay

Shek Pai Wan or Aberdeen Bay is a bay between Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island and Ap Lei Chau (formerly Aberdeen Island). Its name was formerly romanized as Shekpywan.[1] The bay is one of the traditional fishery ports because the hills on two sides forms a nature shelter. The whole bay is zoned as the Aberdeen West Typhoon Shelter.

  1. ^ "Hong-Kong", Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. XII (9th ed.), 1878, pp. 141–2.

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