Ap Lei Chau, or Duck Tongue Island in Chinese, is among the last remaining bastions of Hong Kong where the traditional maritime heritage lives on.
Even today, the small island continues as a home to fishermen and their families, who work as generations did before them on green timber trawlers, and live in public housing in the old village.
Similarly, many of the original, family-run boatyards are still in business, building and repairing the junks and sampans that ferry commuters and tourists, or are used for entertaining corporate clients.
The island also continues its role in providing natural protection for the typhoon shelter at nearby Aberdeen. The harbour is also a tourist attraction, famed as the place where one can still see a working fishing village and home to the Jumbo Floating Restaurant.
Accessed either by water taxi or bridge from Wong Chuk Hang Road, Ap Lei Chau is a densely populated area where the estates mostly are public and Private Sector Participation Schemes.
However, one major development that breaks the mould is South Horizons, built in four phases during the 1990s by Secan, a subsidiary of the Hutchison Whampoa Property Group.