"Lantau" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Cantonese 爛頭／烂头 (laan⁶ tau⁴, literally “broken head”), referring to the Lantau Peak on the island.",
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          "text": "In the later Ching period there were at least three military installations on Lantau 一 at Tung Chung, Tai O and Fan Lau, another on Cheung Chau, and a considerable number of troops in the Kowloon Walled City.",
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          "ref": "1986, Carol Clewlow, Hong Kong, Macau & Canton: A Travel Survival Kit, 4th edition, Lonely Planet Publications, page 111:",
          "text": "Only a couple of square km in size, Cheung Chau — ‘long island’ in Cantonese — is 10 km west of Hong Kong, off the south-east tip of Lantau. Archaeological digs have shown that Cheung Chau, like Lamma and Lantau, was inhabited in prehistoric times.",
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          "ref": "2006, “Hong Kong Beaches”, in The New York Times, Fodor's, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, Travel:",
          "text": "Cheung Sha is a popular beach on Lantau, only a short taxi or bus ride from the Silvermine Bay ferry pier.",
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          "text": "The Ngong Ping Sewage Treatment Works (NPSTW) on Lantau is the first tertiary sewage treatment and reclaimed water facility built in Hong Kong. It has been in operation since March 2006, producing reclaimed water for flushing the nearby public toilets, controlled irrigation and rearing ornamental fish.",
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