Tai A Chau
| 大鴉洲 | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 4.5 km south of Lantau Island |
| Coordinates | 22°9′41″N 113°54′30″E / 22.16139°N 113.90833°ECoordinates: 22°9′41″N 113°54′30″E / 22.16139°N 113.90833°E |
| Area | 1.2 km2 (0.46 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 154 m (505 ft) |
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| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited |
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| Traditional Chinese | 大鴉洲 | ||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Daaih ā jāu |
| Jyutping | Daai6 aa1 zau1 |
Tai A Chau (Chinese: 大鴉洲) is an uninhabited island of Hong Kong, part of the Soko Islands group, located south of Lantau Island. It is referred to as South Soko Island in some media articles.
With an area of 1.2 km², Tai A Chau is the largest of the Soko Islands. It is located 4.5 km to the south of Lantau Island and about 2 km north of the boundary of the Hong Kong territorial waters. The island has small hills with heights ranging from 85m to 154m. Its coastline is mainly steeply sloped and rocky in nature.
There were historically two villages on the island: Ha Tsuen and Sheung Tsuen on the west and south sides of the island. The villagers left in the 1980s, when a detention camp for Vietnamese refugees was built. In 1937, Walter Schofield, then a Cadet Officer in the Hong Kong Civil Service, wrote "There is a shrimp paste factory here which exports to Europe and America". Tai A Chau Detention Centre was home to thousands of Vietnamese refugees from 1991 to 1996. The centre was closed prior to the handover in 1997 and all the building structures were demolished.
The island has a temple dedicated to Tin Hau and seven earth shrines.
Two helicopter landing pads and a small jetty remain from the island's former detention centre.
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