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Kellett Island is a former island of Victoria Harbour, off East Point in Hong Kong. It is now connected to Hong Kong Island at Causeway Bay following land reclamation in 1969.
It is located in Wan Chai District.
The island remained for the use of the Navy until 1938, when the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, formerly located in North Point, moved to Kellett Island. The clubhouse was built in 1939 on the foundations of the old Naval Powder Magazine. History of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club The new premises were formally opened on 26 October 1940 by the then Acting Governor, Lieutenant General Sir E. F. Norton.
After the fall of Hong Kong in 1941, occupying Japanese forces kept military supplies there, including fuel, gunpowder, artillery and ammunition.Captions to intelligence drawings from the collection of Colonel Lindsay Ride, held by the Australian War Museum, on loan to LCSD After the War, the Yacht Club was reopened there on 17 September 1945.
A causeway completed in 1952 was built to give access to the island by means other than water. Following reclamation work in the 1960s and the completion of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel in 1972, Kellett Island was connected to Causeway Bay and its original outline disappeared, although the name remained.
In October 1991, a pottery jar containing large quantity of Chinese copper coins was discovered at the island by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. The coins were dated to Sui dynasty, Tang dynasty and Song dynasty dynasties (589–1279). The coins and the pottery jar were then handed over by the club to the Antiquities and Monuments Office. Kellett Island Site of Archaeological Interest
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