Mount Cameron

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Etymology

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Perhaps named after William Gordon Cameron.

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Mount Cameron

  1. A peak in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
    • 1932, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist[1], volumes 3-4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 206:
      Widely distributed on Hong Kong Island and in the Territories. Mount Cameron, the hills above the Tai-tam reservoirs, Mount Violet and Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island are particularly favoured localities.
    • 1993 August 29, “My search for the secret samurai”, in South China Morning Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 December 2021[3]:
      Cameron Mansions sits right on the summit of Mount Cameron, one of those sub-Peaks which nonetheless commands a panoramic view of the harbour.
    • 2003, Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 19:
      The southern anchor moves from Wong Nai Chung Gap to Mount Nicholson, then Mount Cameron, and finally Wan Chai Gap and a little west. Further south is the 'central sector'.
    • 2019, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:
      Middle Gap is about halfway along Black's Link. It is the gap between Mount Cameron on the right and Mount Nicholson on the left.

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