Tsing Yi Bay was 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...

 at the east side of 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...

's Tsing Yi Island, beside Rambler Channel

Rambler Channel

Rambler Channel is a body of water in Hong Kong that separates Tsing Yi Island from mainland Kowloon Peninsula, namely Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung in the New Territories...

, which is approximately Tsing Yi Park

Tsing Yi Park

Tsing Yi Park is a public park on the Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong with Tsing Yi Estate, Tsing Yi Garden, Broadview Garden and St. Paul's Village in its proximity.-External links:*...

 nowadays. The whole bay was reclaimed for the development of new town

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...

. Before reclamation

Land reclamation in Hong Kong

Land is in short supply in Hong Kong, and land reclamation has been conducted there since the mid-19th century.-Projects:One of the earliest and famous project was the Praya Reclamation Scheme, which added 50 to of land in 1890 during the second phase of construction...

, it was surrounded by places known as Tsing Leng Tsui

Tsing Leng Tsui

Tsing Leng Tsui is a former cape of Tsing Yi Island, between a former bay Tsing Yi Bay and Rambler Channel of Hong Kong. After several phases of reclamation, the cape lost its shape and became the ground of Hong Kong Cement Plant of Hong Kong Cement Manufacturing Company Limited...

 (青嶺嘴), Sheung Ko Tan (上高灘), Ha Chung Mei (下涌尾), Tai Wong Ha (大王下) and Tsing Yi Town

Tsing Yi Town

Tsing Yi Town is located on the eastern coast of Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong and is part of the Tsuen Wan New Town. It is based on the Tsing Yi Hui in the past and includes all the flat land surrounding, including the reclaimed land from Tsing Yi Lagoon.The urban development of the northern part of...

 (青衣墟). The names of those places have since changed, and can now be translated, approximately, as Grand Horizon, Green Field Garden, Fung Shue Wo Road

Fung Shue Wo Road

Fung Shue Wo Road is an L-shaped road from Tsing Yi Pier to Tam Kon Shan Interchange near Cheung On Estate, passing through Tsing Yi Town Centre and Fung Shue Wo, on the Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong. It is the major road in the new town of Tsing Yi....

, Tsing Yi Estate and Tsing Yi Garden.

Shallowing

The mud and sand in the stream of Liu To

Liu To

Liu To is the area around the valley in the midwest of Tsing Yi Island. There is a stream in the valley watering the narrow band of agricultural fields of Liu To Village . Its water formerly filled the Tsing Yi Lagoon and nurtured the rice paddies around the lagoon but now is just water flowing...

 settled on the shore of Tsing Yi Bay. A marsh was formed at the mouth of the stream. The bay became shollower and shollower. And finally, a neck, between Tsing Yi Town and Sheung Ko Tan, was formed. The inner water, now separate from the bay outside the neck, became Tsing Yi Lagoon.

Reclamation

In the 1980s the Hong Kong Government started to reclaim the bay in three phases. The bay has now been completely reclaimed and the shore has become straight, from Nga Ying Chau

Nga Ying Chau

Nga Ying Chau , or Cap Island, was an island off the northeast shore of Tsing Yi Island of Hong Kong, separated by a small harbour, Mun Tsai Tong, and Tsuen Wan is at its northeast, just across the Rambler Channel. When the small harbour was reclaimed for the development of new town, the island...

 to Tsing Leng Tsui

Tsing Leng Tsui

Tsing Leng Tsui is a former cape of Tsing Yi Island, between a former bay Tsing Yi Bay and Rambler Channel of Hong Kong. After several phases of reclamation, the cape lost its shape and became the ground of Hong Kong Cement Plant of Hong Kong Cement Manufacturing Company Limited...

.