Aberdeen Street at Queen's Road Central
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| Native name | 鴨巴甸街 (Chinese) |
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| Namesake | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen |
| Location | Central / Sheung Wan, Hong Kong |
| From | Queen's Road Central |
| To | Caine Road |
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| Traditional Chinese | 鴨巴甸街 | ||||||||
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Aberdeen Street is a border street dividing Sheung Wan and CentralonHong Kong Island, Hong Kong.[1] It ascends from Queen's Road CentraltoCaine RoadinMid-Levels. The street is named after George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary at the time of the cession of Hong Kong Island to the United Kingdom in 1842.[2]
In the early days after 1841, while Choong Wan was planned to be business centre of Victoria City and an area of Westener population, Chinese population was removed from Choong Wan to the area around Tai Ping Shan Street in Sheung Wan and Sheung Wan became the area of Chinese population.
South of Hollywood Road was the Alice Memorial Hospital and the College of Medicine where Sun Yat-sen graduated with distinction in 1892. After the college was merged into the University of Hong Kong, the hospital was also moved to Bonham Road and renamed to Nethersole Hospital.
After reclamation of island north, Aberdeen Street was extended in the north by Wing Kut Street (Chinese: 永吉街), a pedestrian lane which hosts a street market.
The following list follows a north–south order. (W) indicates the western side of the street, while (E) indicates the eastern side.
22°17′00″N 114°09′08″E / 22.2833°N 114.1523°E / 22.2833; 114.1523
