Morse Park, Urban park in Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong
Morse Park is a green space of about 16 hectares in Kowloon divided into four separate sections. It features tennis courts, football fields, swimming pools, skating rinks, and indoor sports facilities.
The park takes its name from Sir Morse, a former HSBC chairman who contributed to Hong Kong's economic recovery after World War II. It was developed as a space for public recreation and sports in densely built Kowloon.
Morse Park's name honours Sir Arthur Morse, HSBC chairman during and after World War II. The No. 2 Park's palm garden, holding about 80 palms of 22 species brought from South China and Taiwan, was likened to a Malaysian landscape. In 2015 morning exercisers danced on a lawn near the No. 2 Park entrance instead of the Wong Tai Sin Cultural Park plaza, leaving the grass bare.
Morse Park is split into four sections by city streets, so crossing roads is needed to move between them. No. 3, the largest, lies east of Fung Wo Street between Tung Tau Tsuen Road and Lung Cheung Road; No. 4 is at 30 Heng Lam Street. A covered footbridge linking No. 3 and No. 4 is under construction, with completion expected in 2027.
In 2016, after Pokémon Go reached Hong Kong, rare creatures such as Dragonite and Aerodactyl appeared repeatedly in Morse Park, drawing crowds of up to a thousand players; a trainer once collided with a ball player, and the park was jokingly called "Mini Dragon Park".
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