Victoria Harbour Is 900 Metres Wide

When the Qing Dynasty ceded the Kowloon Peninsula to the British Empire as a result of the British victory in the Second Opium War in 1860, the harbor that would come to be known as Victoria Harbour was over 2 km (about 1.2 miles), wide between Tsim Sha Tsui and Wan Chai.

Yet, as a result of the successive reclamation projects undertaken on Hong Kong Island and in Tsim Sha Tsui, the width of Victoria Harbour steadily shrank. So much so that today, Victoria Harbour measures a mere 900 meters (nearly 3,000 feet) between the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade and the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Still, due to reclamation, this is not even the narrowest part of Victoria Harbour. Between the westernmost tip of Ocean Terminal, in Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, and the northernmost tip of Central Ferry Pier No. 7, in Central, the width of Victoria Harbour is only 834 meters (2,736 feet).

As for the Star Ferry, between Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry Pier and Central Star Ferry Pier No. 8, the distance as of 2026 is only 916 meters (3,000 feet)—a far cry from the 2 km the ferries had to cover when the Star Ferry Company was founded in 1888.