Turret Hill (Chinese: 女婆山), also known as Nui Po Shan, is a peak southeast of Tolo Harbour in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It has a height of 399 metres. The mountain is located in the Sha Tin District.[1]

Turret Hill
女婆山
View of Tide Cove, with Nui Po Shan in the centre of the picture. The current Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works is visible in the centre right.
Highest point
Elevation	399 m (1,309 ft)
Coordinates	22°23′29″N 114°13′27″E
Geography
Turret Hill Location of Turret Hill in Hong Kong
Location	Hong Kong

History

A quarry named Turret Hill Quarry was located on the southeastern flank of Turret Hill. Established in the mid-1960s, it initially served as a borrow area, and was converted into an aggregate quarry in the late 1970s. Rock extraction ceased at the quarry in 1984.[2][3]

Construction work to move the nearby Sha Tin Sewage Treatment Works to an artificial cave within Nui Po Shan started in 2021.[4]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nui Po Shan.

• List of mountains, peaks and hills in Hong Kong
• Ma On Shan Country Park
• Mining in Hong Kong

References

Further reading

• Irfan, T.Y. (January 1992). "Section 2: Aggregate Properties of Monzonite from Turret Hill Quarry". GEO Report No. 7. Aggregate Properties of Some Hong Kong Rocks (PDF). Geotechnical Engineering Office, Civil Engineering Department. p. 8.