Following the
establishment of British Hong Kong as a trade port in 1841, the first lighthouses in Hong Kong were planned and built to assist international navigation. The first lighthouse to enter service was
Cape D'Aguilar Lighthouse in April 1875, which was operated by
lighthouse keepers who received specialist training in
London and lived in the lighthouse in one-month shifts. As of 2017, five lighthouse structures in Hong Kong that date from before the
Second World War remain in operation: Cape D'Aguilar,
Green Island (two lighthouses),
Waglan, and
Tang Lung Chau. All of them are listed heritage sites. In addition,
Gap Island Lighthouse (also known as
Mosquito Island, or
Man Mei Chau from
Cantonese 蚊尾洲, pronounced
Wenwei Zhou in
Mandarin), situated on an island due south from Hong Kong, was built in 1892 in collaboration between the
British Hong Kong and
Qing Empire governments; this lighthouse is now under
Guangdong administration and is fully-automated using solar power. ==Lighthouses in Macau==