Rednaxela Terrace
Rednaxela Terrace ( Chinese 列 拿 士 地 臺 ) is a pedestrian street in the mid-levels of Hong Kong . It is 63 meters long and joins Shelley Street to the west and Peel Street to the east.
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The name of the street is a palindrome because it reads backwards like "Alexander". Although there is no official evidence of the origin of the name, it is assumed that the road through the grounds was one of Alexander and "Rednaxela" erroneous transliteration was the English name "Alexander" was written as the Chinese language or from right to left . Most of the naming errors in Hong Kong are due to incorrect or inaccurate translations, transliterations or transcriptions , although some consider this Hong Kong unique error of right-to-left transcription among the colonial bureaucrats to be unthinkable. Another explanation would be that the street name is related to the name "Rednaxela" used by the abolitionist Robert Alexander Young in his 1829 work Ethiopian Manifesto . Whatever the origin of the name, the Chinese transliteration adopted it, it became known in the area and the government made no changes.
history
From December 1891 to June 1892 the Filipino revolutionary and national hero José Rizal lived with his family at Rednaxela Terrace No. 2 and at that time worked as an ophthalmologist in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong government erected a plaque at the intersection of Rednaxela Terrace and Shelley Street in 2004 to honor Rizal.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 列 拿 士 地 臺 的 故事 ( zh ) In: Headline Daily .
- ↑ Andrew Yanne, Gillis Heller: Signs of a Colonial Era . Hong Kong University Press , 2009, ISBN 9789622099449 , p. 143.
- ↑ a b Rachel Cheung: Stories behind Hong Kong street names: Rednaxela Terrace and its famous resident . In: South China Morning Post . July 8, 2016. Accessed November 1, 2018.
Coordinates: 22 ° 16 ′ 51.7 ″ N , 114 ° 8 ′ 57 ″ E