Gin Drinkers Bay

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Gin Drinkers Bay (traditional Chinese: 醉酒灣, literally Drunkard's Bay) or Gin Drinker's Bay is also known as Lap Sap Wan (垃圾灣, lit. Rubbish Bay, Cantonese Jyutping: laap6 saap3 waan1). It was a bay in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong.

The bay was reclaimed in 1960s and became Kwai Fong and Kwai Hing. At the mouth of the bay stood Tsing Chau.

The bay was a harbour for Tanka fishing junks. They relocated to Tsing Yi Tong and Mun Tsai Tong of Tsing Yi Island before the commencement of reclamation.

Lap Sap (垃圾) means rubbish in Cantonese. It is unclear that why the bay named rubbish in the past. However, coincidently it was once a dumping area for rubbish after extensive reclamation. It is assumed that in Gin Drinkers Bay Park or Kwai Chung Park near Tsing Chau that the area is subject to landfill gas produced deep in the ground even though it is covered with hills of earth. It remains closed due to unsafe levels of landfill gas.

Gin Drinkers Bay is famous for the Gin Drinkers Line, a defence line against Japanese invasion in 1941.