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Mount Davis

Mount Davis proper noun: a hill in Kennedy Town, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

Proper noun

Mount Davis

  1. A hill in Kennedy Town, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
    • As mentioned, the 1st Middlesex occupied beach pill boxes extending along the west, south and eastern littoral from beneath Mount Davis in the West to Sau Kei Wan [Shau Kei Wan] Hill in the northeast. The Hong Kong Volunteers, mostly assigned to man weapons ranging from artillery to machine guns...2001, Dauril Alden, Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life : Soldier, Historian, Teacher, Collector, Traveller, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 147
    • The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a top American business school, is set to relocate its Singapore campus to Hong Kong next year after the government offered it a 17,000 sq ft heritage building on Mount Davis for a one-off premium of just HK$1,000 ($130).2013 July 11, “PRESS DIGEST - Hong Kong - July 12”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 17 May 2021, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
  2. An area of Kennedy Town, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

Examples of Mount Davis in a sentence

  • As mentioned, the 1st Middlesex occupied beach pill boxes extending along the west, south and eastern littoral from beneath Mount Davis in the West to Sau Kei Wan [Shau Kei Wan] Hill in the northeast.2001, Dauril Alden, Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life : Soldier, Historian, Teacher, Collector, Traveller, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 147:
  • Villa Cecil on Mount Davis was found to have had a private pool partially on government land for over two decades.2023 September 14, James Lee, “Hong Kong urban planning NGO finds 173 alleged illegal structures at luxury houses”, in Hong Kong Free...

Origin of Mount Davis

Named after Sir John Francis Davis, the 2nd Governor of British Hong Kong.

Questions about Mount Davis

What does Mount Davis mean?
Mount Davis means a hill in Kennedy Town, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
How do you use Mount Davis in a sentence?
As mentioned, the 1st Middlesex occupied beach pill boxes extending along the west, south and eastern littoral from beneath Mount Davis in the West to Sau Kei Wan [Shau Kei Wan] Hill in the northeast.
What part of speech is Mount Davis?
Mount Davis is a proper noun.

Words near Mount Davis in the dictionary

  1. Mount Currie
  2. Mount Dandenong
  3. Mount Darragh
  4. Mount Data
  5. Mount David
  6. Mount Davis
  7. Mount Dee
  8. Mount Deli
  9. Mount Delly
  10. Mount Desert
  11. Mount Desert Island

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