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title: "Timeline photos "In the mid 1900s, several of these typhoon shelters…"
date: 2014-03-13
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships added a new photo.
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# Timeline photos "In the mid 1900s, several of these typhoon shelters…

*March 13, 2014 · Facebook*

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\"In the mid 1900s, several of these typhoon shelters were actually not only used as refuges during typhoons, but were in fact floating cities of junks, of which many would never go to sea again, but just stayed there, permanently moored until they rotted away and sank.\
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The biggest of these floating cities could be found in Aberdeen Harbour between Hong Kong Island and Ap Lei Chau. Here lived about 20.000 \"boat people\" on about 3000 junks. They are the Tanka- and Hoklo people, - a certain group of fishermen, that traditionally preferred to live permanently on their boats instead of living in apartments ashore. \"\
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[http://global-mariner.com/index111JunkHarbourAberdeen.html](http://global-mariner.com/index111JunkHarbourAberdeen.html){target="_blank"}
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