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{{For|the former island in the Victoria Harbour with a similar Cantonese name|Kellett Island}}
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'''Tang Lung Chau''' ({{zh|t=燈籠洲}}) is a islet located off the southern coast of [[Ma Wan]] island to the northwest of [[Hong Kong Island]], [[Hong Kong]]. It is located within [[Tsuen Wan District]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eac.hk/pdf/distco/2019dc/final/dc2019k.pdf |title=District Council Constituency Boundaries - Tsuen Wan District |last= |first= |date=4 December 2018 |website= |publisher=[[Electoral Affairs Commission]] |access-date= |quote=}}</ref> of the [[New Territories]].

==Lighthouse==
{{Split section|Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox lighthouse
| qid = Q15936439
| foundation = concrete base
| construction = metal skeletal tower
| shape = square pyramidal skeletal tower with balcony and lantern
| marking = white tower and lantern
| country = Hong Kong
| countrynumber = HK-062<ref>[https://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/khg.htm Hong Kong]{{dead link|date=May 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} ''The Lighthouse Directory''. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 14 December 2016</ref><ref>[http://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.portal?_nfpb=true&_st=&_pageLabel=msi_pub_detail&CCD_itemID=112&pubConstant=NGALOL NGA List of Lights – Pub.112] Retrieved 14 December 2016</ref>
}}

Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse and the former lightkeeper's house, located on Tang Lung Chau, was [[Declared monuments of Hong Kong|declared a monument]] on 29 December 2000.<ref>[http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/en/monuments_72.php Antiquities and Monuments Office - Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse]</ref>

The lighthouse, also commonly known as Kap Sing Lighthouse, was put into service on 29 April 1912; it is one of the five surviving pre-war {{oldid2|994611974|lighthouses in Hong Kong}}. It is a skeletal steel tower of {{convert|11.8|metres|feet}} high with a white lantern on top. The steel tower and light apparatus were obtained from [[England]]. The lighthouse, unmanned and automated, is now under the management of the [[Marine Department (Hong Kong)|Marine Department]].<ref name="The GIS on HK Heritage"/>

There is a bedroom, a kitchen, a latrine and a store room in the adjoining brick light keeper's house.<ref name="The GIS on HK Heritage"/> There was no spring or fresh water supply on the island so the light keeper of Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse used rainwater which was collected from the roof and then diverted into an underground tank.<ref name="The GIS on HK Heritage">{{Cite web |url=http://www5.lcsd.gov.hk/gishinter/html/viewer_en.htm |title=The Geographical Information System on Hong Kong Heritage |access-date=13 August 2006 |archive-date=12 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112135017/http://www5.lcsd.gov.hk/gishinter/html/viewer_en.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[List of lighthouses in Hong Kong]]
* [[Green Island Lighthouse Compound]]
* [[Cape D'Aguilar Lighthouse]]
* [[Waglan Lighthouse]]

== Gallery ==
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File:Kap Shui Mun 2015.jpg|View of Ma Wan, with Tang Lung Chau in the upper part of the picture
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==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite journal |last1= Ha|first1= Louis|last2= Waters|first2= Dan|year=2001 |title=Hong Kong's Lighthouses and the Men Who Manned Them|journal= [[Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch]]|volume=  41|pages=281–320 |url=http://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/203758cdeb1696e0f3fb7ceca59e88b1.pdf |issn= 1991-7295}}

==External links==
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* [https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&om=1&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=22.340058,114.062397&spn=0.002228,0.003659&t=k Aerial view on Google Maps]
* [http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/form/Plan/plan_72.pdf Map of Tang Lung Chau]

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[[Category:Uninhabited islands of Hong Kong]]
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