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The main purpose of the guns was to prevent an attack on Singapore Island and the important Naval Base from the sea. A popular myth after the loss of Singapore in February 1942 was that the guns were "impressive but useless: the guns on Singapore pointed the wrong way" [25] and hence could not fire on the advancing Japanese. In reality this was ...
The earliest visual records of Singapore as a British settlement are 19th century images produced for marine coastal surveying. [1] One of the earliest is Singapore from the Rocky Point, 1819 , a wash drawing by John Michael Houghton, a midshipman on board the HMS Discovery , part of the naval escort accompanying Raffles on his journey to ...
Marina Central or Marina Centre (Chinese: 滨海中心; Malay: Marina Pusat) is a zone of reclaimed land within the Downtown Core in the southern part of Singapore.Together with the Marina South area, it encloses the sheltered Marina Bay.
In the early twentieth century, Kampong Amber, a Malay fishing village between East Coast Road and Amber Road, was a prominent landmark in the coastal area of Katong. [3] [4] The village was named after the adjacent Amber Road, which was in turn named after the clan name of Joseph Aaron Elias, a prominent property owner in early-20th-century ...
Behind the Chinses ship was a replica of a 9th-century Arabian dhow, the Jewel Of Muscat, which was gifted to Singapore by the Sultanate of Oman. [4] Surrounding both ships is the Souk Gallery which is a collection of dioramas of ancient markets in Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Iran and Malindi in Africa . [4]
In 1928, pieces of gold ornaments dating to the mid-14th century was discovered at Fort Canning Hill. [21] Recent excavations in Fort Canning provide evidence that Singapore was a port of some importance in the 14th century [22] and used for transactions between Malays and Chinese.
The 16th-century term "East Indies" and the later 19th-century term "Malay Archipelago" are also used to refer to Maritime Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, the Old Javanese term "Nusantara" is also used as a synonym for Maritime Southeast Asia. The term, however, is nationalistic and has shifting boundaries.
Sculptures at Boat Quay depict activities carried out on the banks of Singapore River in the 19th century and early 20th century Night view of Boat Quay Boat Quay during its heyday around 1865, when as many as 150 boats moored on the river, trading everything from rubber, tin and iron, to silk, porcelain, rice, opium, spices and coffee.