page_title: Lamma Island
section_title: Sham Wan
hierarchical_section_title: Lamma Island / Sham Wan
caption_attribution_description: English: Sham Wan beach. Sham Wan is a sea turtle nesting beach on Lamma island in Hong Kong.
context_page_description: Lamma Island, also known as Y Island or Pok Liu Chau or simply Pok Liu, is the third largest island in Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the Islands District.
context_section_description: Sham Wan is one of the five most important archaeological sites in Hong Kong. The bay is the site of an important Bronze Age settlement which was unearthed by archaeologists in the 1970s. It yielded evidence of people living on Lamma during the "Middle Neolithic" phase (c. 3800–3000 BC).
  Historically Sham Wan was also a place for green sea turtles to lay eggs. The endangered green turtles are a special group of marine organisms with distinctive navigation behaviour between their nesting, breeding, development and reproduction sites. As Sham Wan is the only existing nesting site for them in Hong Kong, every year there is a period of restricted access to it from 1 June to 31 October to allow the turtles to breed. The breeding site is about 5,100 m² (54,896 sq ft). The last known nesting at Sham Wan was in 2012.
caption: Sham Wan
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