Pak Tam Chung
{{Short description|Area in Hong Kong}}
File:Sheung Yiu Folk Museum 02.jpg in Pak Tam Chung.]]
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File:Pak Tam Chung Taxi Queue (5780852306).jpg
Pak Tam Chung ({{zh|t=北潭涌}}) is an area in the southern part of the Sai Kung Peninsula in the New Territories of Hong Kong.{{Cite web|title=Sai Kung West (Wan Tsai Ext.)|url=https://www.afcd.gov.hk/english/country/cou_vis/cou_vis_cou/cou_vis_cou_skwwte/cou_vis_cou_skwwte.html|website=www.afcd.gov.hk|language=en|access-date=2020-05-25}} It is administratively under the Sai Kung District.
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Features
Pak Tam Chung was described as consisting of six villages in 1911 with fewer than 405 inhabitants: Wong Yi Chau ({{zh|t=黃宜洲|labels=no}}), Pak Tam ({{zh|t=北潭|labels=no}}), Sheung Yiu ({{zh|t=上窰|labels=no}}), Tsak Yue Wu ({{zh|t=鯽魚湖|labels=no}}), Wong Keng Tei ({{zh|t=黃麖地|labels=no}}) and Tsam Chuk Wan. The six villages were all inhabited by Hakka people, with the exception of two hamlets in Pak Tam.{{cite book |last=Faure |first=David |date=1986 |title=The structure of Chinese rural society: lineage and village in the eastern New Territories, Hong Kong |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=90 |isbn=9780195839708 }}{{cite journal |last1=Delang |first1=Claudio O. |date=30 March 2018 |title=Local livelihoods and global process: complex causalities in Hong Kong's Sai Kung Peninsula |url=https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/mgrsd/22/1/article-p31.xml |journal=Miscellanea Geographica |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=31–39 |doi=10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0003 |issn= 2084-6118 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2018MiscG..22...31D }}
There is a visitor centre for nature education set up by the Hong Kong Government. Near the centre is a vehicle barrier leading to the restricted portion of Sai Kung East Country Park in Pak Tam Chung. For vehicles, only those with authorisation can enter the area and reach places like Hoi Ha, Pak Tam Au and High Island Reservoir.
There are a number of picnic and barbecue facilities within Pak Tam Chung, including a site designed for physically disabled visitors.
Po Leung Kuk owns a holiday camp site in Pak Tam Chung, the Po Leung Kuk Pak Tam Chung Camp ({{zh|t=保良局北潭涌渡假營|labels=no}}).
Climate
{{Weather box|width=auto
|metric first=y
|single line=y
|collapsed = Y
|location = Pak Tam Chung (1996–2020)
|Jan high C = 19.3
|Feb high C = 19.7
|Mar high C = 22.1
|Apr high C = 25.7
|May high C = 29.0
|Jun high C = 31.1
|Jul high C = 32.3
|Aug high C = 32.2
|Sep high C = 31.2
|Oct high C = 28.9
|Nov high C = 25.3
|Dec high C = 21.0
|Jan mean C = 14.7
|Feb mean C = 15.4
|Mar mean C = 18.1
|Apr mean C = 21.6
|May mean C = 25.3
|Jun mean C = 27.3
|Jul mean C = 27.9
|Aug mean C = 27.6
|Sep mean C = 26.7
|Oct mean C = 24.3
|Nov mean C = 20.6
|Dec mean C = 16.0
|Jan low C = 10.9
|Feb low C = 12.1
|Mar low C = 15.1
|Apr low C = 18.8
|May low C = 22.4
|Jun low C = 24.2
|Jul low C = 24.6
|Aug low C = 24.3
|Sep low C = 23.4
|Oct low C = 20.6
|Nov low C = 16.8
|Dec low C = 12.1
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 43.0
|Feb precipitation mm = 35.7
|Mar precipitation mm = 72.1
|Apr precipitation mm = 114.6
|May precipitation mm = 346.3
|Jun precipitation mm = 497.2
|Jul precipitation mm = 345.4
|Aug precipitation mm = 377.3
|Sep precipitation mm = 275.4
|Oct precipitation mm = 96.0
|Nov precipitation mm = 43.9
|Dec precipitation mm = 31.0
|Jan humidity = 77.1
|Feb humidity = 79.9
|Mar humidity = 82.5
|Apr humidity = 85.6
|May humidity = 86.6
|Jun humidity = 87.6
|Jul humidity = 86.7
|Aug humidity = 86.9
|Sep humidity = 83.6
|Oct humidity = 78.1
|Nov humidity = 77.5
|Dec humidity = 72.9
|source 1 = Hong Kong Observatory{{cite web
| url = https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/cis/awsMonthlyElement.htm?stn=TYW&ele=TEMP
| title = Monthly Data for Single Element
| publisher = Hong Kong Observatory
| access-date = 5 April 2024
}}
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See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last1= Hamilton|first1= Eric|last2= Schofield|first2= Walter|last3= Peplow|first3= S. H.|last4= Tsui|first4= Paul|last5= Coates|first5= Austin|authorlink5=Austin Coates |last6= Hayes|first6= James|authorlink6=James W. Hayes|editor1-first=John|editor1-last=Strickland|title= Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60|year= 2010|publisher= Hong Kong University Press|isbn=9789888028382|pages=266–269 |chapter=Chapter 6. Sai Kung Peninsula}}
External links
{{commons category|Pak Tam Chung}}
- [https://www.had.gov.hk/rre/images/village_map1922/Q/q-sk-49.pdf Delineation of area of existing village Pak Tam Chung (Sai Kung) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)]
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