British Hong Kong Map. Map description Map of Hong Kong showing Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories, Lantau Island, Lamma Island and other surrounding islands depicted in different colours and with borders indicating different districts. Although there are still small dependent colonies scattered about the globe to this day, the Imperial adventure effectively ceased in 1997 with the return of Hong Kong to China.
Hong Kong Map Hong Kong from www.worldmap1.com
Over the past few years I have been collecting historic maps to track the changes and development in the infrastructure. In 1997, Hong Kong stopped being a British colony after more than 150 years of British rule
Hong Kong Map Hong Kong
Many see this moment as the end of the last significant colony in the British Empire Map description Map of Hong Kong showing Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories, Lantau Island, Lamma Island and other surrounding islands depicted in different colours and with borders indicating different districts. Many see this moment as the end of the last significant colony in the British Empire
. The National Archives' catalogue CO - Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies Division within CO - Records of the Chief Clerk's and General Departments CO 700 - Colonial Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans: Series I Subseries within CO 700 - HONG KONG AND. Hong Kong Historic Maps - Reference 189910Description
. Map description Map of Hong Kong showing Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories, Lantau Island, Lamma Island and other surrounding islands depicted in different colours and with borders indicating different districts. From 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during World War II between 1941 and 1945, Hong Kong was a British crown colony and, from 1981 until its handover, a dependent territory of the United Kingdom