Qualla: Ap Chau https://qualla.com/ap-chau en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/1/2/ap-chau-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ap Chau https://qualla.com/ap-chau Ap Chau: Introduction https://qualla.com/ap-chau/ Photo credit Isaac Wong (惡德神父), CC BY-SA 3.0. The island looks, from above, exactly like its name says it should. Ap Chau means Duck Island in Cantonese, and seen from the air the shape is unmistakable: a duck's body resting on the water of Crooked Harbour, its distinctive head formed by the rocky northern promontory that juts into the sea. At just 0.04 square kilometres, it is the smallest inhabited island in Hong Kong — smaller than many a city car park — and as of 2017, three people call it home.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/1/2/ap-chau-wp/ws12-ap-chau-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ap Chau: The Fishermen Who Came First https://qualla.com/ap-chau/ Photo credit 圍棋一級, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ap Chau spent most of its history as an uninhabited rock. Until the early twentieth century, no one lived there permanently, though fishing boats occasionally sought shelter in the harbour. The change came in the 1920s, when Tanka fishermen — members of an ethnic minority with de...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/1/2/ap-chau-wp/ws12-ap-chau-the-fishermen-who-came-first.mp3 0:06 2 full Ap Chau: The Village Built on Faith and Foreign Aid https://qualla.com/ap-chau/ Photo credit Nhk9, CC BY-SA 4.0. The formal village of Ap Chau was established in 1961, constructed with financial support from the United States CARE programme and the British colonial government. The community that took shape there was devout: a church went up alongside the houses, and it is still active today...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/1/2/ap-chau-wp/ws12-ap-chau-the-village-built-on-faith-and-foreign-aid.mp3 0:06 3 full Ap Chau: The Duck's Eye https://qualla.com/ap-chau/ Photo credit 方畢可, CC0. Nature shaped the island's most famous feature in the northern rocks. The Duck's Eye Sea Arch — also known as the Ap Chau Sea Arch — is a natural opening two metres tall and ten metres wide, carved by centuries of seawater erosion working steadily through the sedimentary rock. Wh...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/1/2/ap-chau-wp/ws12-ap-chau-the-ducks-eye.mp3 0:06 4 full Ap Chau: Getting There https://qualla.com/ap-chau/ Photo credit LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reaching Ap Chau is not straightforward, and that is rather the point. The island sits within a zone that requires a restricted area pass to access via the Sha Tau Kok Public Pier, a legacy of the border security arrangements that have governed this corner of Hong Kong since the ...

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