Dragon's Teeth Gate
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
In the 14th century, Wang Dayuan's junk probably sailed through this passageway. In his record, he accounted that the Fujian mariners knew about these two rock outcrops as "Long Ya Men" or "Dragon's Teeth Gate" because they reminded them of the two pegs at the bow of their ships. These two pegs were known to the mariners as "Dragon's Teeth".
The Keppel passageway was frequented by Asian and early European sailors and traders for hundreds of years to sail past Singapore. The passageway was however abandoned and forgotten in the seventeenth century when modern European sailors preferred the wider and more open Main Straits south of Pulau Satamu where Raffles Lighthouse stands today.
Sir Stamford Raffles of the British East India Company did not know of the "Lot's Wife" or the deep water harbour it led to when he landed in Singapore in January 1819. It was William Farquhar, the first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore, wrote to Raffles then in Bencoolen on 2 September 1819 that he founded a new harbour west of the settlement.
The two rock outcrops were subsequently blown up by the Straits Settlement Surveyor, John Thomson in August 1848 to widen the entrance to the new harbour.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Ya_Men
13 comments:
The Dragon Teeth Gate may just be a bluff as Zheng Ho may just jolly well see the shapes of two small islands like sisters islands and say that it is at the mouth of Singapore as there is not much accurate map at the time.
The gate may be true too...Remember to keep your mind open when it is on history.
Do not trust anybody( Including History teachers) and only trust concrete evidences such as glass shards.
Cheers,.Tan Jun Kai of Sec 2C
Hey good thinking by Tan Jun Kai! I bet u will be a historian when u grow up!
Teo Chia Yin 2D
Are you sure i think jun kai will be lawyer, doctor or something else. i don't think he will be a historian
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