Green Island, Hong Kong

Green Island Lighthouse
	Green Island Lighthouse in 2013.
Location	Green Island, Green Island, Central and Western District, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
Coordinates	22°17′01″N 114°06′41″E / 22.283725°N 114.111281°E
Tower
Constructed	1875 (first)
Construction	granite tower (both)
Height	12 metres (39 ft) (first); 17.5 metres (57 ft) (current)
Shape	cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern (current); cylindrical tower and lantern removed (first)
Markings	white tower and lantern
Heritage	declared monuments of Hong Kong
Light
First lit	1905 (current)
Focal height	37 metres (121 ft) (current)
Lens	4th order Fresnel lens (first), 1st order Fresnel lens (current)
Range	16 nmi (30 km; 18 mi)
Characteristic	Fl W 10s
Hong Kong no.	HK-069
Chinese name
Chinese	青洲
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Qīngzhōu
Hakka
Romanization	Ciang5 ziu1
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Chīng jāu
Jyutping	Cing1 zau1

Green Island is an island off the northwest coast of Kennedy Town, Hong Kong Island, separated by the Sulphur Channel. A smaller island nearby to the east, uninhabited, is called Little Green Island (小青洲). Administratively, the two islands are part of Central and Western District.^[2]^[3]

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