Pulau Seringat
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Pulau Seringat is an island off the south coast of Singapore, and part of the Southern Islands region. In 2006, Pulau Seringat and Lazarus Island were linked by a sand bank. Before the 1970s there wer
Pulau Seringat (left) and Lazarus Island (center)
Pulau Seringat, photographed in February 2011
Singapore
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Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country in Southeast Asia. Its territory comprises a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. The countr
Pulau Seringat
…Pulau Seringat is an island off the south coast of Singapore, and part of the Southern Islands region. In 2006, Pulau Seringat and Lazarus Island were linked by a sand bank. Before the 1970s there were about 15…
Letter from William Farquhar to Sultan Muhammad Kanzul Alam, the 21st Sultan of Brunei, dated 28 November 1819. In the first line, Farquhar mentions that Sultan Hussein Shah and Temenggong Abdul Rahman allowed the British East India Company to establish a factory in Singapore on 6 February 1819.
A lithograph by Vincent Brooks of Singapore City in 1865 from the former Mount Wallich
Battlecruiser HMS Repulse, one of the few capital ships sent by Churchill to Singapore to defend it
British prisoners of war evacuating in 1945 following the Japanese surrender at Kallang Airport. The airport's control tower, located near the city, has been conserved.