Hong Kong Museum of The War of Resistance and Coastal Defence

This guide to the Hong Kong Museum of the War of Resistance and Coastal Defence follows the Victorian fort built in 1887 to guard the narrow channel between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. It traces the defenders, mostly soldiers of the Fifth Battalion, Seventh Rajput Regiment, who held this shore against Japanese probes from Devil's Peak in December 1941, and the first wave of the crossing on the night of the eighteenth. Listen for how the fort's casemates and gun platforms survive as you walk the ramparts.