page_title: Port Shelter
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Port Shelter / History
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 1898年《展拓香港界址專條》附圖。 English: Map of Hong Kong in The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory in 1898.
context_page_description: Port Shelter, known in Cantonese as Ngau Mei Hoi, is a harbour south of Sai Kung Peninsula in Hong Kong. The water body connects to Inner Port Shelter, as well as Hebe Haven, Rocky Harbour and other water body. Outer Port Shelter, is situated at the mouth of the harbour.
context_section_description: In a 1863 book, stated Port Shelter and Rocky Harbour are the two main components of a deep bay. At that time the water body was still part of the Qing Empire, under the Xin'an County.
  Port Shelter was also mentioned in a report to the UK government in 1898 by James Stewart Lockhart, shortly after the signing of the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory. It stated the harbour is a deep water port that suitable for ships in any size. The Convention ceded Port Shelter and other areas that collectively known as the New Territories and New Kowloon, to the British Empire, as an extension of the colony of Hong Kong.
  In the past, villagers from the six villages of Pak Tam Chung, would collect coral from Port Shelter to make lime. Nowadays, fishermen still catch Sea urchin in the Port Shelter.
caption: Map of the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory, showing Port Shelter at the right
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