Bokhara Battery, Artillery battery in Cape D'Aguilar, Hong Kong

Bokhara Battery is a coastal defense installation at Cape D'Aguilar with two gun emplacements positioned on elevated ground overlooking the South China Sea. The placement allowed the guns to command views of the harbor and nearby shipping routes.

The battery was constructed in 1941 and equipped with two large guns relocated from an existing coastal fortification. Soon after completion, the crew deliberately destroyed the installation during a military invasion.

The site reflects Hong Kong's military past under British colonial rule and shows how coastal defenses were built to protect settlements. Walking through it today, you can observe the physical remnants and grasp the practical approach to defending the harbor.

The battery sits on the cliff at the southern tip of the D'Aguilar Peninsula, reached on foot; no road runs to the gun positions. The observation post and searchlight platform were found collapsed in 2012, so keep to the surviving structures. The right gun emplacement held a radio antenna between 2002 and 2012.

The battery had no underground magazine: built in haste after 1939, it stored ammunition in two rows of buildings behind the gun pits. Its right gun pit held a radio antenna between 2002 and 2012, and by 2012 the observation post and searchlight platform had partly collapsed.