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Mount Cameron

Mount Cameron proper noun: a peak in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.

Proper noun

Mount Cameron

  1. A peak in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
    • Widely distributed on Hong Kong Island and in the Territories. Mount Cameron, the hills above the Tai-tam reservoirs, Mount Violet and Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island are particularly favoured localities.1932, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist, volumes 3-4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 206
    • The Japanese bombed centers of resistance on Mount Davis (1), at Aberdeen (2) and on Mount Cameron (3). Severe fighting was reported in the vicinity of the race course (4).1941 December 22, James MacDonald, “HONG KONG FORCE KEEPS ON FIGHTING; Messages Report Relentless Attacks by Japanese on Hard-Pressed Garrison”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York...

Examples of Mount Cameron in a sentence

  • Cameron Mansions sits right on the summit of Mount Cameron, one of those sub-Peaks which nonetheless commands a panoramic view of the harbour.1993 August 29, “My search for the secret samurai”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
  • The southern anchor moves from Wong Nai Chung Gap to Mount Nicholson, then Mount Cameron, and finally Wan Chai Gap and a little west.2003, Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:
  • It is the gap between Mount Cameron on the right and Mount Nicholson on the left.2019, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page...

Origin of Mount Cameron

Perhaps named after William Gordon Cameron.

Questions about Mount Cameron

What does Mount Cameron mean?
Mount Cameron means a peak in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
How do you use Mount Cameron in a sentence?
Cameron Mansions sits right on the summit of Mount Cameron, one of those sub-Peaks which nonetheless commands a panoramic view of the harbour.
What part of speech is Mount Cameron?
Mount Cameron is a proper noun.

Words near Mount Cameron in the dictionary

  1. Mount Burrell
  2. Mount Bute
  3. Mount Butler
  4. Mount Caburn
  5. Mount Camel
  6. Mount Cameron
  7. Mount Carmel
  8. Mount Carmel-Mitchells Brook-St. Catherines
  9. Mount Carroll
  10. Mount Catherine
  11. Mount Charleston

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