Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Back to Nature Reserve

Labrador Nature Reserve is located at the southern part of mainland Singapore and it is a place where many historical relics and natural artefacts during the colonial and second world war and also had a long history tracing back to the early century. There was an old British Base (a fort) Fort Pasir Panjang which mean Long Beach in Malay located on top of a hill and above the cliff in front of the sea. The Labrador Park is reclaimed from the sea, there is a machine gun bunker and the Dragon Teeth Gate or Long Ya Men was a large rock stood at the mouth of Keppel Harbour or Batu Belaryar which blown up by the British in 1848, in 2005 a 6-metre replica was erected to commemorate the role it plays toward the Singapore's Maritime history.