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Inset: The backs of these cigarette packets were used to record weather observations whensenior staff were interned at Stanley.Following Hong Kong's surrender on Christmas Day, 1941, victorious Colenel Tanakaof the Japanese 229 Regiment looks over Lyemun Gap, across which his troops attacked.
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The Royal Observatory, Hong KongJIM
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The effect of climate on human cond
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IntroductionIifc on earth is possib
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Theories had been developed: as ear
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Then came another important scienti
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thirty feet high, huge grotesque lo
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Ancient Chinese astronomical instru
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Chapter 1KSJSJOJ/ do think that, of
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work of the observatory made no pro
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Page 28 and 29: period. The main building was recta
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Page 34 and 35: many previous storms when the wind
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Page 41 and 42: ... Mr. da Silva has resigned. . .
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Page 50 and 51: I he early European traders, mercha
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Page 54 and 55: coast; trees are broken or rooted u
Page 56 and 57: Professor S. Wells Williams, anothe
Page 58 and 59: We had a striking example in Hong K
Page 60 and 61: Hong Kong lies just within the trop
Page 62 and 63: Chapter 3OFCOTWETSEverybody talks a
Page 64 and 65: The sun's disc had a diameter on th
Page 66 and 67: Such detailed rules failed to impre
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Page 72 and 73: inlet of Tola Harbour in the New Te
Page 74 and 75: The war in Europe had spurred the d
Page 78 and 79: Chapter 4O-UUS7MASI heard 'crumping
Page 80 and 81: A summary of the weather in 1942, 1
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Page 86 and 87: also brought problems with communic
Page 88 and 89: An investigation of the meteorologi
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Page 92 and 93: Earlier the same day, small landsli
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Page 102 and 103: ong Kong's climate is sub-tropical,
Page 104 and 105: Official estimates put typhoon dama
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Forecasters at the Airport Meteorol
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In 1980 the Observatory began to pr
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annual summaries of weather observa
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Maximum sustained winds can also be
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To measure complete ground movement
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that the instruments were 'practica
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Routine surface observations began
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A weather radar is mainly used to m
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The Observatory's computer division
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• Airborne dust collected at King
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t confuse the Tropical Cyclone Sign
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SAYER, G. R., Hong Kong 1841-1862.
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