Tai Ho Wan is a bay

Bay

A bay is an area of water mostly surrounded by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Bays also exist as an inlet in a lake or pond. A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight...

 on the north shore of Lantau Island

Lantau Island

Lantau Island , based on the old local name of Lantau Peak , is the largest island in Hong Kong, located at the mouth of the Pearl River. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands District of Hong Kong...

 in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

. It is located west of Siu Ho Wan

Siu Ho Wan

Siu Ho Wan is a bay on the north shore of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. The bay is largely reclaimed for the bus depots. The Airport Express, Tung Chung Line of MTR and North Lantau Highway run across the reclamation of the bay...

, and northeast of Tung Chung

Tung Chung

Tung Chung, meaning 'eastern stream', is an area situated on the north-western coast of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. Tung Chung, currently one of the latest generation of new towns, was formerly a rural village around Tung Chung Wan, and along the delta and lower courses of Tung Chung River and Ma...

. The surrounding land was originally part of the North Lantau New Town

North Lantau New Town

The North Lantau New Town , built on reclaimed land from the northern coast of the Lantau Island in the New Territories, is the newest among the nine new towns in Hong Kong. It was planned to span Tung Chung and Tai Ho. Nevertheless, as of 2006, only Tung Chung was developed, and a railway depot at...

 scope, the current slowdown in its plans because of population growth and environmental groups opposed to the next in abeyance.

Tai Ho was originally a rural area, to the northern part there is a shoal extend and to the southern part there is the foot of Lin Fa Shan

Lin Fa Shan

Lin Fa Shan is the sixth highest hill in Hong Kong. With height of 766 m on the Lantau Island, it is situated between Mui Wo and Sunset Peak....

. Slopes are mostly grassland and shrub forest, there are monsoonal nature of swamps, as well as the stream is named Tai Ho Stream flow into the Tai Ho Bay.

In 1989, the British Hong Kong Government announced that the Airport Core Programme

Airport Core Programme

The Hong Kong Airport Core Programme was a series of infrastructure projects centred around the new Hong Kong International Airport during the early 1990s...

, which includes the north through the Tai Ho, North Lantau Highway

North Lantau Highway

North Lantau Highway is part of Route 8 of Hong Kong, linking Hong Kong International Airport and Lantau Island with the rest of the territory. It is an expressway with three lanes in each direction for its entire length with full width hard shoulders for emergencies and breakdowns...

, and the development of Tai Ho into new towns

New towns of Hong Kong

The area of Hong Kong is very mountainous and many places in the New Territories have limited access to roads. Hong Kong started developing new towns in the 1950s, to accommodate booming populations. In the early days the term "satellite towns" was used. The very first new towns included Tsuen Wan...

. MTR

MTR

Mass Transit Railway is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong. Originally opened in 1979, the system now includes 211.6 km of rail with 155 stations, including 86 railway stations and 69 light rail stops...

 Tung Chung Line released at the time the program, but also reserved for the construction of Tai Ho station location. However, in the late 1990s, due to the development of Tung Chung, Lantau Island, another area slowed down and is expected to slow down our population growth, coupled with environmentalists worry that the development of Tai Ho will affect the local environment and ecology, so there were no large-scale development outside the ground of North Lantau Highway.

Tai Ho Stream

Tai Ho Stream contains the largest varieties of freshwaterfish species in Hong Kong, with 47 species of fish. The Hong Kong Government in 1999 designated Tai Ho Stream as the 63rd Site of Special Scientific Interest

Site of Special Scientific Interest (Hong Kong)

Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a special area to protect wildlife, habitats and geographic features based on scientic interest in Hong Kong. Scientic interests are special features relating to animal life, plant life, geology and/or geography...

 for the reason of finding Ayu

Ayu

The or sweetfish, Plecoglossus altivelis, is an amphidromous fish, the only species in the genus Plecoglossus and in family Plecoglossidae. It is a relative of the smelts and is placed in the order Osmeriformes...

 (plecoglossus altivelis) in the river, which cannot be found anywhere in the world except for waters between Hokkaidō

Hokkaido

, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectural-level subdivisions. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu, although the two islands are connected by the underwater railway Seikan Tunnel...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

and Hong Kong.