Map of Macau and it's vicinity in 1836
Map of Macau and its vicinity in 1912
Map of Macau and its vicinity in 1936

There is one main peninsula, one main island, and several smaller peninsulas, islets, and artificial islands in the Macao Special Administrative Region. The main island is located to the south of the Macau Peninsula and to the east of Hengqin Island of the Pearl River (Zhujiang), Guangdong Province, China. The island has remained unnamed since its creation in the late 1990s, after the reclamation project of Cotai, which filled up the channel between the islands of Coloane and Taipa.

Historically, the unnamed island was under the administration of the Concelho das Ilhas, it is however now divided into the Coloane, Cotai, and Taipa districts.

The Macau Peninsula was once an island in the Pearl River Delta. It has been linked to Zhongshan Island as a result of sedimentation and became a peninsula approximately. two thousand years ago. Apart from this case, all of the Macanese former islands were merged either directly or indirectly with the Macau Peninsula or the newly unnamed island directly as the result of artificial land reclamation.

Peninsulas

Islands

Entirely

Partly

Leased

Islets

  • Centro Ecuménico Kun Iam (artificial islet)
  • Islets in the Nam Van Lake
  • Portas do Entendimento (artificial islet)

Former islands

  • Coloane Island
  • Ilha Kai Kiong – connected to the apron of Macau International Airport, Taipa in 1995
  • Ilha Verde – connected to the Macau Peninsula in 1895 when a causeway (now Avenida do Conselheiro Borja) was built[3]
  • Ilhéu das Lázaras – connected to the north-east of Coloane
  • Ilhéu de Macau-Siac – connected to the north-east of the Macau Peninsula in January 1921, during the landfilling works for Macau's Outer Harbour expansion
  • Macau Island
  • Pedra d'Areca[4]
  • Taipa Island – was itself two smaller islands

See also

References

  1. ↑ See Decisão do Comité Permanente da Assembleia Popular Nacional da República Popular da China relativa à delegação de poderes na Região Administrativa Especial de Macau para o exercício de jurisdição no novo campus da Universidade de Macau a instalar na Ilha da Montanha, published as annexed in Aviso do Chefe do Executivo n.º 19/2009 (in Portuguese), published in the Official Bulletin No. 35/2009.
  2. ↑ See Lei n.º 3/2013 Estabelece as normas fundamentais para a aplicação do Direito da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau no novo campus da Universidade de Macau na Ilha de Hengqin (in Portuguese), published in the Official Bulletin No. 8/2013.
  3. ↑ "Lau Cannot Say When Ilha Verde Crossing Will Open". Macaubusiness.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  4. ↑ Historical map of Macau (JPEG) (Map). Instituto Cultural.
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