Photograph Identification: P-44745Hong Kong, China
This is an X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (X-SAR) imagespanning an area of approximately 20 kilometers by 40 kilometers (12 miles by25 miles) of the island of Hong Kong, the Kowloon Peninsula, and the new territories in southern China, taken by the imaging radar on board the spaceshuttle Endeavour on October 4, 1994. North is toward the top left corner ofthe image. The Kaitak Airport runway on Kowloon Peninsula (center right ofimage) was built on reclaimed land and extends almost 3 kilometers (nearly 2miles) into Victoria Harbor. To the south of the harbor lies the island of HongKong. The bright areas around the harbor are the major residential and businessdistricts. Housing more than six million residents, Hong Kong is the mostdensely populated area in the world. The large number of objects visible in theharbor and surrounding waters are a variety of sea-going vessels, anchored inone of the busiest seaports in the Far East.
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