Lam Chau
| Native name: 欖洲 | |
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 Lam Chau
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| Geography | |
| Location | West of Chek Lap Kok North of Lantau Island |
| Area | 0.08 km2 (0.031 sq mi) |
| Length | 0.45 km (0.28 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 100 m (300 ft) |
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| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited |
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| Traditional Chinese | 欖洲 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Láahm jāu |
| Jyutping | Laam5 zau1 |
Lam Chau (Chinese: 欖洲) was one of the two original islands that made up the site of the current Hong Kong International Airport.
The small island lay to the west of Chek Lap Kok and north of Lantau Island. It had an area of 0.08km² and was 450m long. It had a narrow rocky shoreline and small hills (less than 100m tall) covered by vegetation and shrub. Like Chep Lap Kok, geologically Lam Chau consisted of granite.
In the 1990s the island was flattened and joined with Chek Lap Kok to form the airport island by land reclamation. The former island is now part of the southwest side of the airport grounds, located close to the western end of the south runway.
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