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NameHong Kong: Kai Tak Airport
ProductionBrian Brake; photographer; 1970-1976; Hong Kong
Classificationcolour transparencies, colour slides, aerial views, aerial photographs
Materialsphotographic gelatin, reversal film, cut film
Materials Summarycolour transparency
Techniqueschromogenic processes, colour photography
Registration NumberCT.052427
Credit lineGift of Mr Raymond Wai-Man Lau, 2001
Overview
Brian Brake is looking southeast. By the mid-1950s, Kai Tak airport could barely handle modern aircraft. Hong Kong responded with its "finger runway", opened in 1958 and the world’s first such reclaimed runway. Later, Kowloon Bay was reclaimed for industrial use – as seen here about 1975.
Brake 向東南面取鏡。1950 年代中期，隨著愈來愈多新型航機投入服務，設備簡陋的啟德機場漸難應付，香港政府遂著手建造「手指形跑道」。這條全球首創的填海造地機場跑道於 1958 年啟用，如照片所示，其後約於 1975 年九龍灣亦填海變身工業區。