Flat Island（銀洲）is one of the 235 islands of Hong Kong, under the administration of Tai Po District, is located in Hoi Ha Wan（海下灣）, where Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park (海下灣海岸公園) is located. Junction of Kwong Fuk Road and Kwong Fuk Street, Tai Po For the district in Hong Kong, see Tai Po District. ... Hoi Ha Wan (海下ç£, a bay below a sea) is a marine park in Hong Kong. ...
The island was sacred to Ix Chel, the Maya Moon Goddess, and the temples here were a place of pilgrimage, especially by women desiring fertility.
The island was struck directly by two Category 4 hurricanes during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Emily and Hurricane Wilma, which together devastated much of the infrastructure and tourism industry on the island.
Singer Kirsty MacColl died on this island, after a tragic accident on December 18, 2000 in which she was hit by a speedboat owned by Mexican supermarket millionaire Guillermo González Nova (owner of Comercial Mexicana).
By 1857 FlatIslands had a population of 210 and nine of the sixteen surnames represented in the community originated in Conception Bay.
FlatIslands represented an area of some considerable genetic and cultural diversity mainly because the population settling there from Conception Bay were descended from a somewhat different stock of British immigrants than those of Salvage and Barrow Harbour, or of Bonavista, Kings Cove, Keels and the Greenspond area.
FlatIsland females, for example, formed a main source of wives for peninsular-born males throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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