Meanings
- A peak in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
An addition or alternative from the Peak Tram building is the 2½ mile run around Mount Kellett.
1987, Michael Anderson, “Hong Kong — Running at its Peak”, in Running in Asia, Howard Publishing Company Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 484 more examples
After quickly loading, I arranged with Capt Otway that I take the lorries loaded with 3.7-inch and 4.5-inch shell to Mount Kellett and Sanatorium gun positions and that he move the last three lorries loaded with 6-inch How ammunition to a rendezvous point, near the vicinity of the Government Dairy Farm situated at Pokfulam, where I was to return and collect the lorries to deliver the ammunition to the gun positions at Mount Austin and Mount Gough.
2009 June 1, Charles Barman, Ray Barman, Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63Matilda International Hospital (1907–present) Standing on Mount Kellett, overlooking Lamma Channel and South China Sea, Matilda Hospital is an historic building with handsome white Shanghai marble plaster walls, and was opened in 1907.
2006 January 1, Plague, SARS and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130Details were recorded by an eyewitness, L. Gibbs, and published in the quarterly Hong Kong Naturalist, in 1931. In his account, Gibbs, who was living on Mount Kellett in 1893, vividly described the effects of several days of extreme cold on Hong Kong Island’s upper altitudes.
2016 April 2, Jason Wordie, “The big chill in Hong Kong: how 2016 compares to 1893, 1948”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2016, OpinionWill smirked to himself as he thought about them—Mount Kellett, Strawberry Hill and Mount Gough in the Peak district; Mount Cameron and Mount Nicholson enclosing Happy Valley, Mount Davis towering over the western approach to the harbour.
2023 January 19, Siobhan Daiko, The Flame Tree, Asolando Books, page https://books.google.com/books?id=fYadEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT81
Origin
Named after Henry Kellett.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 奇力山
- 奇力山peak in Hong Kong
Cite this entry
Mount Kellett. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mount%20Kellett
“Mount Kellett.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mount%20Kellett. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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