Poon Saan
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Christmas Island
The Territory of Christmas Island is a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is located northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and ENE of the Cocos Islands....
, an external territory of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Ethnic Chinese make up the majority of inhabitants. In Chinese, Poon Saan (半山, Jyutping
Jyutping
Jyutping is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong in 1993. Its formal name is The Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Cantonese Romanization Scheme...
: bun3 saan1, Pinyin
Pinyin
Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...
: bàn shān) means "halfway up the hill".
Poon Saan is the second largest settlement on Christmas Island. There are 2 Chinese restaurants and 1 tourist accommodation (The Christmas Island Lodge) in the settlement.
To shop for clothings and gifts, there is a shopping complex in Poon Saan called Tropicana Boutique which sells a variety of clothes, shoes and gifts, and the other shopping complex is called the Poon Saan shops.