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{{Short description|Mountain in Hong Kong}}
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| name = The Hunch Backs
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| photo_caption =View of the Hunch Backs 
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| map_caption = Location of The Hunch Backs in {{HKG}}
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|other_name=牛押山}}'''The Hunch Backs''', or '''Ngau Ngak Shan''' ({{zh|t=牛押山}}), is the twelfth-highest mountain in Hong Kong. Peaked at {{convert|677|m||abbr=}},<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4sO5vlJ7ETcC&pg=PA119 |title=Hong Kong Landscapes: Shaping the Barren Rock|last=Owen|first=Bernie|last2=Shaw|first2=Raynor|date=2007|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|isbn=9789622098473|pages=119|language=en}}</ref> it is at the north of [[Ma On Shan (peak)|Ma On Shan]].

==Conservation==
The north and north-east slopes of the Hunch Backs and the east slope of [[Ma On Shan (peak)|Ma On Shan]], covering an area of 118 hectares, was designated as a [[Site of Special Scientific Interest (Hong Kong)|Site of Special Scientific Interest]] in 1976.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/access/pec/SSSI.html |url-status=dead |title=Register of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher=[[Town Planning Board|Planning Department]] |access-date= |quote= |archive-date=2023-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230816204514/https://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/access/pec/SSSI.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/access/pec/SSSI/plans/07.pdf |url-status=dead |title=Site of Special Scientific Interest - Ma On Shan |last= |first= |date=30 September 1992 |website= |publisher=[[Town Planning Board|Planning Department]] |access-date= |quote= |archive-date=11 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220911062538/https://www.pland.gov.hk/pland_en/access/pec/SSSI/plans/07.pdf }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of mountains, peaks and hills in Hong Kong]]
* [[Ma On Shan (peak)]]
* [[Ma On Shan Country Park]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Sewell |first=R.J. |date=1996 |title=Geology of Ma On Shan |url=https://www.cedd.gov.hk/eng/publications/geo/hong-kong-geological-survey/sheet_g5/index.html |chapter=Chapter 6. Metamorphic Rocks|chapter-url=https://www.cedd.gov.hk/filemanager/eng/content_392/g5_chapter_6.pdf |location=[[Hong Kong]] |publisher=[[Civil Engineering and Development Department]] }}

{{Hills and Mountains in Hong Kong}}
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[[Category:Mountains, peaks and hills of Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Ma On Shan]]


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