Former Islands
- Channel Rock - Kowloon City - now part of the Kai Tak former airport runway
- Chau Tsai - absorbed by reclaimed land of Tsing Yi Island, near CRC Oil Depot of Nam Wan Kok
- Fat Tong Chau (佛堂洲, Junk Island) - now part of Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung as a result of land reclamation
- Hoi Sham Island - Kowloon City (also To Kwa Wan Island) - now part of To Kwa Wan as a result of reclamation
- Kellett Island - now part of Causeway Bay as a result of gradual land reclamation, Eastern
- La Ka Chau (勒加洲)
- Lam Chau - Islands - now assimilated with Chek Lap Kok into the airport platform and connected to Lantau by two bridges
- Leung Shuen Wan (糧船灣洲, High Island), Sai Kung - connected to the mainland to form the High Island Reservoir
- Mong Chau - an island off the hill of Lai King, buried under the Terminal 2 of the Container Terminal.
- Nga Ying Chau - now northeast corner of the Tsing Yi Island as a result of land reclamation
- Pearl Island (龍珠島) - Tuen Mun
- Rumsey Rock - Now part of shore of between Tsim Sha Tsui East and Hung Hom.
- Stonecutter's Island - a former island, now part of the Kowloon peninsula, following land reclamation
- Tsing Chau, or Pillar Island - absorbed into reclaimed land of Gin Drinkers Bay or Lap Sap Wan. It is the Kwai Chung end of Tsing Yi Bridge.
- Tung Tau Chau (東頭洲) - connected to the mainland to form the Plover Cove Reservoir
- Yuen Chau Tsai (元洲仔)
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