Government Hill

The western part of the island is likewise divided from the centre by two ravines, both running from the same eminence - the one to the south terminating in a small undulating piece of country, on which the village of Pok-foo-lum is situated; other to the north, where it spreads out and forms Government Hill and the small flat beneath.

1843, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, page 112

The buildings, erected around 1843, housed the first government offices on the 'Government Hill', between Lower Albert Road, seen on the right, and Battery Path below.

2002, Solomon Bard, Voices from the Past: Hong Kong, 1842-1918, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 19

Following the relocation of Central Government Offices from Government Hill in Central, the 1,000-square-metre site became the focal point of protests against the national education curriculum and the government’s denial of a free-to-air licence to broadcaster HKTV.

2015 September 1, Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, “Gov’t fortifies Civic Square ahead of Occupy anniversary”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2023, Hong Kong

The west wing of “Government Hill” was proposed to be demolished to give way to high-rise office buildings.The protesters thought that no matter how dull it was, the “Government Hill” had witnessed a piece of Hong Kong history after the war and should be preserved totally.

2016, Charlie Q. L. Xue, “Modernism Coming to Town—Government Low-Cost Housing and Public Buildings”, in Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015: From Colonial to Global, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 45

Although it appears to be a self-contained enclave in the central business district, Government Hill has not been totally cocooned from change.[…] If the new CGO blocks had been typical high-rise, they would have destroyed the character of Government Hill. A popular feature of the CGO compound was accessibility.

2016, Ken Nicolson, “Government Hill”, in Landscapes Lost and Found: Appreciating Hong Kong’s Heritage Cultural Landscapes, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 95, 97