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Tate's Cairn

Tate's Cairn proper noun: a peak in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.

Proper noun

Tate's Cairn

  1. A peak in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.
    • Tea is cultivated in several places in the New Territories, e.g., in the Shing Mun valley and at the villages lying in the higher mountain valleys about Tate's Cairn and Buffalo Hill.1906, Hong Kong. Botanical, Forestry Department, Annual Report of the Forestry Department of Hong Kong, page 9
    • To the north of Kowloon Peak the ridge dips and rises to Middle Hill and Tate's Cairn, then bends sharply to the west and continues over Temple Hill, Lion Rock and Beacon Hill.1936, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist

Origin of Tate's Cairn

Probably named after George Passman Tate.

Questions about Tate's Cairn

What does Tate's Cairn mean?
Tate's Cairn means a peak in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.
What part of speech is Tate's Cairn?
Tate's Cairn is a proper noun.

Words near Tate's Cairn in the dictionary

  1. tatch
  2. Tatchell
  3. tatches
  4. tate
  5. Tate County
  6. Tate's Cairn
  7. Tate's shrew rat
  8. Tate's three-striped dasyure
  9. tatee
  10. tatees
  11. tategyoji

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