Keppel Harbour
Keppel Harbour (Chinese: 吉宝港口 or 岌巴港口; pinyin: Jíbǎo Gǎngkǒu or Jíbā Gǎngkǒu; Malay: Pelabuhan Keppel), also called the Keppel Channel and formerly New Harbour, is a stretch of water in Singapore between the mainland and the southern islands of Pulau Brani and Sentosa (formerly Pulau Blakang Mati). Its naturally sheltered and deep waters was to meet the requirements of British colonists attempting to establish a Far East maritime colony in that part of the world, thereby setting the stage for the eventual formation of Singapore as a successful independent state.
Etymology and history
Keppel Harbour, by association with the rocky outcrop known as Batu Berlayar (and "Lot's Wife" in colonial times) has been speculated to be the site of
In the 1830s, the
In 1855, Captain William Cloughton, William Paterson and William Wemyss Ker purchased Pantai Chermin from
For a while, the harbour was simply known as New Harbour but it was renamed Keppel Harbour in honour of
New Harbour Road was also renamed Keppel Road. The Chinese names for Keppel Road and Keppel Harbour were sin kam kong chu u or "Kampong Bahru dock", and sek lat moi or "selat passage" (selat is Malay for straits).
Plans
Singapore's largest
≥ The group has launched aThe condominium is part of the 4,860,000 square feet (452,000 m2) Keppel Bay mega development, which is 70 per cent owned by
The most exclusive homes of the lot are reserved for Keppel Island, where the Marina@Keppel Bay, a separate development, was completed in late 2007. The marina will have high-end restaurants and tentative plans are for high-end villas and possible condominium units on the island.
A 250-metre Keppel Bay Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge links Keppel Island to the mainland.
Keppel also has two other smaller plots for condominium on the other side of the Caribbean. Corals condominium is located beside Caribbean, just beside King's Dock (Second largest dock in the world since 20 August 1923) with 366 units. One is 3.4 ha in size while the other, a joint venture with Mapletree, is 2.9 ha.
References
- Smith, Elder & Co. p. 161.
- ^ Joyce Teo, "Keppel to build more waterfront homes", The Straits Times, 22 November 2006
- Victor R Savage, Brenda S A Yeoh (2004), Toponymics - A Study of Singapore Street Names, Eastern University Press, ISBN 981-210-364-3