Shek Pik

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Shek Pik (石壁) is a place in the south coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It was also a village in the place. The village was relocated when Shek Pik Reservoir was built. Below the dam of the reservoir is Shek Pik Prison.

The area is reachable by Keung Shan Road, with Tai O Road, from Tai O, and South Lantau Road from Mui Wo.

[edit] Village

A clan from Ma Tau Wai in Kowloon accompanied the last two young emperors to Lautau Island and finally settled in Shek Pik to avoid the Mongol invasion at the end of Southern Song.

[edit] Rock Carvings

Rock carvings from neolithic age was found by Chen Kung-chiek in Shek Pik in 1939 when the local villagers told him there was an engraved craving on the upper part of the beach to the west of Tung Wan^[1].

There was the second one on the opposite side of the valley; it was split into two parts by lightning and the rock is laying face down so the carving can be seen, according to the local villagers^[1].

According to the local villagers, there was the third carving further up the valley; the rock carving, (later called "the upper Shek Pik Rock Carving" to distinguish it from the one found on the Shek Pik Beach) was found on a steep slope in Shek Pik in 1962 ^[1].The carving is at 350m above sea level.^[2]

Shek Pik (Lower) Rock Carving is now listed as declared monuments of Hong Kong.^[2].