"Government Hill" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1843, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, page 112",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2002, Solomon Bard, Voices from the Past: Hong Kong, 1842-1918, Hong Kong University Press, page 19",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2010 October 25, “Shopping mall should not be built on Government Hill”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-24",
          "text": "Hong Kong people deserve a better-protected Government Hill. It will be very sad if this valuable site is to become a 'Developer's Hill'.",
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          "ref": "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 2023-10-22, Hong Kong",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2016, Charlie Q. L. Xue, Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015: From Colonial to Global, Springer, page 45",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2016, Ken Nicolson, Landscapes Lost and Found: Appreciating Hong Kong’s Heritage Cultural Landscapes, Hong Kong University Press, page 95",
          "text": "Although it appears to be a self-contained enclave in the central business district, Government Hill has not been totally cocooned from change.[…]\nIf 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.",
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          "ref": "2018, Pui-yin Ho, Making Hong Kong, Edward Elgar Publishing",
          "text": "During the consultation period, former Secretary for Works Michael Wright and former Chief Secretary David Akers-Jones advised the government to conserve the Government Hill as a whole and not to demolish the West Wing.",
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        "The Former Central Government Offices of the Government of Hong Kong."
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      "sense": "hill in Hong Kong",
      "word": "政府山"
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