Mount Gough
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English
Etymology
Named after Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough.
Proper noun
- A peak in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
- 1851, Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, page 261:
- 2. Polygata arillata, Hamilt.–Wight et Arn. Prod. vol. i. p.39.
Very rare. A shrub on Mount Gough, and another on Mount Victoria (since destroyed by the Chinese), were all that had been seen.
- 2009, Charles Barman, Ray Barman, Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 54:
- I was instructed to deliver the 6-inch How shells and cartridges to the gun positions at Mount Austin and Mount Gough. I arrived at Aberdeen headquarters, where the lorries with loading parties and guards were waiting.
- 2011 May 18, Alex Frew Mcmillan, “Magnificent heights of success”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 September 2023:
- Severn Road, which winds around Mount Gough just below Peak Road, is the most expensive residential street in the world - at HK$50,725 per square foot, up 72 per cent in a year.
- 2012, Joe O'Shea, Murder, Mutiny & Mayhem: The Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish History, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:
- Gough was buried in Dublin and an equestrian statue of him was erected in the Phoenix Park. It was later vandalised and moved to England. He was also commemorated by Mount Gough on Hong Kong island, which is now back in the hands of the Chinese.
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- Mount Gough at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.