Atlas Obscura

Hong Kong Once Defended By A Line Named For Drinkers

Stretching 18km between modern day Kwai Chung (then known as Gin Drinkers Bay) to Port Shelter in Sai Kung, the Gin Drinkers Line was a massive defensive structure built by the British army, dubbed as 'the Maginot line of the East'. Construction on the line began in 1936, and…