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Morrison Hill
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English
Etymology
en Robert Morrison Robert Morrison (missionary).
Proper noun
Morrison hill
en hill area/Wan Chai district/Wan Chai sar/Hong Kong.
en 1967 Gwenneth Stokes John Stokes Hong Kong: Its Story in Brief The Extreme East: A Modern History https://archive.org/details/extremeeast0000stok/ w:Longman 0582690722 1244715638 395 https://archive.org/details/extremeeast0000stok/page/395/ Where today are Caroline Hill, East Point Hill, and Morrison Hill on which Hong Kong's first western school was built? Where are the bays which formerly indented the coastline of Hong Kong?
en 2007 Michael Anthony Ingham; Mike Ingham "Suzie's World": from Wan Chai to Happy Valley Hong Kong: A Cultural History https://books.google.com/books?id=CWQevk29DJsC Oxford University Press 9780195314977 2007001938 78893572 59 https://books.google.com/books?id=CWQevk29DJsC&pg=PA59 East of Morrison Hill and the rice paddies of Belcher Valley (named after himself by a rather conceited Captain Edward Belcher) were the godowns of the Jardine-Matheson company, situated roughly where the modern Excelsior Hotel in Causeway Bay now stands.
en 11 July 2009 Jason Wordie Out and about https://web.archive.org/web/20230903103513/https://www.scmp.com/article/686539/out-and-about 3 September 2023 https://www.scmp.com/article/686539/out-and-about w:South China Morning Post 1563-9371 648902513 Hong Kong's most renowned European brothel operated during the interwar years just across from Morrison Hill, at the far end of Queen's Road East, run by a stately lady of shadowy origins named Ethel Morrison - it was rumoured that she took her professional surname from the hill across the way.
en 2018-12-01 David Bellis Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=oeZ_DwAAQBAJ Gwulo 9789887827610 1035521485 104 https://books.google.com/books?id=oeZ_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA104 When the project began, workers delivered the earth from Morrison Hill to the reclamation using small trucks that they pushed by hand.
Translations
hill in Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 摩理臣山
Further reading
Morrison Hill