Tate's Cairn en · PROPN
Etymology
Probably named after George Passman Tate.
Meanings
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A peak in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.
Of all the sights in the world, few can compare with a place Dave and I discovered called Tate's Cairn, a modest hill back in the New Territories whose summit commanded a majestic oversight of the then colony.
2012, Graham Fisher, “Innocents Abroad”, in A Kiss and a Cup of Tea, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:The maximum sustained winds recorded at Waglan Island, Tate’s Cairn and Cheung Chau Beach were 113, 101 and 97 kmh (70, 62, 60 mph) respectively, with maximum gusts 135, 154 and 130 kmh (84, 96, 81 mph)
2017 August 26, Anne Marie Roantree, Venus Wu, “Battered Hong Kong and Macau brace for Pakhar, more flooding”, in Andrew Hay, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023, COMMODITIES NEWS:Hong Kong Observatory unveiled a new weather radar at Tate’s Cairn on Thursday.
2015 October 9, Medhavi Arora, “HK Observatory unveils new HK$19m weather radar to better predict rain”, in Hong Kong Free Press, Hong Kong:Tea is cultivated in several places in the New Territories, e.g., in the Shing Mun valley and at the villages lying in the higher mountain valleys about Tate's Cairn and Buffalo Hill.
1906, Hong Kong. Botanical, Forestry Department, Annual Report of the Forestry Department of Hong Kong, page 9:The first installation was a Decca storm warning radar with a maximum range of 250 nautical miles based on top of Tate's Cairn. This equipment was used for nearly 20 years, until June 1979.
1983, Anthony Dyson, From Time Ball to Atomic Clock:To the north of Kowloon Peak the ridge dips and rises to Middle Hill and Tate's Cairn, then bends sharply to the west and continues over Temple Hill, Lion Rock and Beacon Hill.
1936, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist:
Translations (1)
yue 大老山 (peak in Hong Kong)