Mount Cameronとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Perhaps named after William Gordon Cameron.

固有名詞

Mount Cameron

1. A peak in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
   • 1932, Geoffrey Alton Craig Herklots, The Hong Kong Naturalist‎, volumes 3-4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 206:

     Widely distributed on Hong Kong Island and in the Territories. Mount Cameron, the hills above the Tai-tam reservoirs, Mount Violet and Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island are particularly favoured localities.

   • 1941 December 22, James MacDonald, “HONG KONG FORCE KEEPS ON FIGHTING; Messages Report Relentless Attacks by Japanese on Hard-Pressed Garrison”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 February 2026, page 5, column 2:

     The Japanese bombed centers of resistance on Mount Davis (1), at Aberdeen (2) and on Mount Cameron (3). Severe fighting was reported in the vicinity of the race course (4).

   • 1993 August 29, “My search for the secret samurai”, in South China Morning Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 December 2021‎:

     Cameron Mansions sits right on the summit of Mount Cameron, one of those sub-Peaks which nonetheless commands a panoramic view of the harbour.

   • 2003, Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941‎, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:

     The southern anchor moves from Wong Nai Chung Gap to Mount Nicholson, then Mount Cameron, and finally Wan Chai Gap and a little west. Further south is the 'central sector'.

   • 2019, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941‎, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [7]:

     Middle Gap is about halfway along Black's Link. It is the gap between Mount Cameron on the right and Mount Nicholson on the left.

Further reading

• “Mount Cameron”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.