Great George Street, Hong Kong


Great George Street is a busy shopping street of the Causeway Bay area, on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.
The street is about 200 metres long. It connects Victoria Park and East Point Road.

Name

The street was named after the street of the same name in Westminster, London, which is name after Britain's King George II. King George II is affectionately known as Great George.

Features

Amongst others, Great George Street hosts the first factory of Vitasoy and the first Wellcome supermarket operating 24 hours a day. One of the exits of MTR Causeway Bay Station is located at this street.

Light pollution

In October 2008, an environmental organisation, Friends of the Earth, Hong Kong, released a result of online election about the "light pollution" emitted from the commercial building, Windsor House, in this street. They found the intensity of the light is 10,000 lux, equivalent to the brightness of daylight.

Trivia

Because King George II indirectly provides the name of this street via the street of the same name in Westminster, London, and this fact makes this street become the oldest commemorated Westerner among streets of Hong Kong.