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Victoria Gap

name

Etymology

From Victoria + gap, from Victoria Peak, ultimately named after Queen Victoria.

  1. derived from *ǵʰeh₂-✻ — “to open wide, gape”
  2. derived from *gapōną✻
  3. derived from gap — “an empty space, gap, chasm”
  4. inherited from gap//gappe
  5. compounded as victoria gap — “Victoria + gap”

Definitions

  1. A mountain pass in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

    • The Peak Hotel is situated at Victoria Gap, about 1,400 feet above the sea, and provides extensive accommodation on a most luxurious scale.
    • In the course of its journey from Garden Road to the Upper Terminus at Victoria Gap, the tram, like any neighborhood commuter train, stops - or more accurately hesitates - at Barker, Bowen, Macdonnell, Kennedy and May Road Stations.

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