Yam O
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Sunny Bay (欣澳) formerly known as Yam O (陰澳) is at the northern part of the Lantau Island, in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It is part of the Tsuen Wan Rural West constituency of the Tsuen Wan District Council.
MTR is building a railway known as Disneyland Resort Line linking Sunny Bay with the future Hong Kong Disneyland theme park. The station to board the Disneyland trains will be Sunny Bay Station on Tung Chung Line.
Yam O was renamed to Sunny Bay (or Yan O in Cantonese) (欣澳), because of the construction of the Disneyland theme park at Penny's Bay. Yam (陰) in Chinese (Cantonese) means dark (the same word as the Mandarin yin, well known to most English speakers from the expression yin-yang), but Yan (欣) means happy, therefore prompting the Hong Kong Government to change the name to provide a suitable atmosphere for the Disneyland rail link.