Sentosa Island
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]Sentosa, which means tranquillity in Malay, is a popular island resort in Singapore, visited by some two million people a year. A major tourist attraction, it hosts a sheltered beach of more than two kilometres in length on its southern coast, a musical fountain which uses the interaction of lasers against water particles to create three-dimensional images, and historical fortifications in Fort Siloso, dating from World War II. There are also two golf courses and two five-star hotels[/font][/color][size=1][font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Etymology[/color][/font][/size]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]Sentosa was once known as Pulau Belakang Mati, which in Malay means the "Island (pulau) of Death (mati) from Behind (belakang)".
The name Belakang Mati is rather old but may not have been founded in the nineteenth century as generally believed. In fact, there exists an island that was identified as Blacan Mati in E.C. de Eredia's 1604 map of Singapore. Other early references to the island of Belakang Mati include Burne Beard Island in Wilde's 1780 MS map, Pulau Niry, Nirifa from 1690 to 1700, and the nineteenth century reference as Pulau Panjang (J.H. Moor). However, early maps did not separate Belakang Mati from the adjacent island of Pulau Brani, so it is uncertain to which island the sixteenth century place names referred.
The island has gone through several name changes. Up to 1830, it was called Pulau Panjang ("long island"). In an 1828 sketch of Singapore Island, the island is referred to as Po. Panjang. According to Bennett (1834), the name Belakang Mati was only given to the hill on the island by the Malay villagers on the island. The Malay name for this island is literally translated as "dead back" or "behind the dead"; belakang means "at the back" or "behind"; mati means "dead".
Different versions of how the island came to acquire such an unpropitious name abound. One account attributed the ominous name to murder and piracy in the island's past. A second claimed that the island is the material paradise of warrior spirits buried at Pulau Brani.
A third account claims that an outbreak of disease on the island in the late 1840s almost wiped out the original Bugis settlers on the island. Dr Robert Little, a British coroner investigating the deaths, stumbled upon what was called Belakang Mati Fever, purportedly a type of fever caused by miasmastic fumes arising from decaying leaves and swampy water on the island. This event led to a controversy in medical circles at that time as to the causes of what was later recognised in 1898 as malaria spread by the Anopheles mosquito. The government's malaria research station was originally located here.
A fourth interpretation is that "dead back island" was so-called because of the lack of fertile soil on the hills.
In 1827, Captain Edward Lake of the Bengal Engineers in his report on public works and fortifications had proposed an alternative name for Belakang Mati as the "Island of St George". However, the island was seen as too unhealthy for habitation and his proposed name was never realised.
In a 1972 contest organised by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, the island was renamed Sentosa, a Malay word meaning "peace and tranquillity".[/color][/font]
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[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]The big Merlion statue on Sentosa[/font][/color] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/SingaporeCBD_from_Carlsberg_Sky_Tower.jpg[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Central Business District from the Carlsberg Sky Tower.[/color][/font]
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[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]View from Imbiah Lookout to mainland Singapore.[/font][/color] [font=comic sans ms][size=2][color=blue]History[/color][/size][/font]
[font=comic sans ms][color=magenta]Pre-1945[/color][/font]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]In the nineteenth century, the island was considered important because it protected the passage into Keppel Harbour. Plans to fortify the island as part of the defence plan for Singapore were drawn up as early as 1827, but few fortifications actually materialised until the 1880s, when the rapid growth of the harbour led to concern over the protection of coal stocks against enemy attack. The forts built on the island were Fort Siloso, Fort Serapong, Fort Connaught and the Mount Imbiah Battery.
The western end of Pulau Belakang Mati, the place where Fort Siloso is now, used to be called sarang rimau (the tiger's den). Salusuh is a kind of herb used as a remedy in childbirth, but there is no explanation of how the fort came to be so-called, the orang laut of Kampong Kopit only knowing the place by the name of sarang rimau. By the 1930s, the island was heavily fortified and a crucial component of Fortress Singapore, and the base of the Royal Artillery.
During the Second World War, the island was a British military fortress. The British set up artillery guns in Fort Siloso that were then pointed to the south, facing the sea in expectation of a seaward Japanese assault. However, the Japanese eventually invaded and captured Singapore from the north, after having done the same to Malaya (now known as West or Peninsular Malaysia). Following the surrender of the Allied Forces on February 15, 1942, the island became a prisoner of war camp, housing Australian and British prisoners of the Japanese.
During the Japanese Occupation, under the Sook Ching Operation, Chinese men who were suspected, often arbitrarily, of being involved in anti-Japanese activities were brutally killed. The beach at Pulau Belakang Mati was one of the killing fields.[/color][/font]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans sm]1945-1972[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]After the Japanese surrender in 1945 and the return of Singapore to British rule, the island became the base of the locally enlisted First Singapore Regiment of the Royal Artillery (1st SRRA) in 1947. Other locally enlisted men from Singapore were sent to the island for basic military training before being sent to other units of the British Army in Singapore.
Ten years later, the 1st SRRA was disbanded and its guns dismantled. The coast artillery was replaced with Gurkha infantry units, first the 2/7th Duke of Edinburgh's own Gurkha Rifles and later the 2/10th Princess Mary's own Gurkha Rifles. Fort Siloso and Fort Serapong became a Catholic retreat and a Protestant church house respectively. Fort Connaught was left in ruins.
In the early 1960s, during the Indonesian Confrontation, the 2/10th unit defended the island against Indonesian saboteurs. With the end of the Confrontation in 1966 and the withdrawal of the Gurkha units from the island, the British handed over Sentosa to the Singapore Armed Forces of the newly independent Government of Singapore in 1967.
In 1967, Pulau Belakang Mati became the base for the Singapore Naval Volunteer Force, which relocated there from its old base at Telok Ayer Basin. The School of Maritime Training was also set up there, as was the first Naval Medical Centre.
In the 1970s, the government decided to develop the island into a holiday resort for local visitors and tourists.[/color][/font]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]1972-Present[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]The island was renamed “Sentosa” in 1972, which means tranquillity in Malay, from a suggestion by the public. The Sentosa Development Corporation was formed and incorporated on 1 September 1972 to oversee the development of the island [3]. Since then, some S$420 million of private capitals and another S$500 million of government funds have been invested to develop the island.
In 1974 the Singapore Cable Car system was built, linking Sentosa to Mount Faber.[3] A series of attractions were subsequently opened for visitors including Fort Siloso, Surrender Chamber wax museum, Musical Fountain, and the Underwater World. The causeway bridge was opened in 1992 connecting Sentosa to the mainland.[3]
The Sentosa Monorail system was opened in 1982 to transport visitors to various stations located around the island. On 16 March 2005, the monorail service was discontinued to make way for a new Sentosa Express system which will operate by end of 2006 to provide a more efficient mode of transport.[/color][/font]
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[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Gunners at work on a 6 Inch Gun emplacement at Fort Siloso.[/color][/font]
[[i] 本帖最后由 天真无邪小猪猪 于 19/12/2006 10:58 PM 编辑 [/i]] [color=Blue][size=2][font=comic sans ms]Geography[/font][/size][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]The island has an area of 5 square kilometres. It lies just half a kilometre (a quarter of a mile) away from the southern coast of the main island of Singapore. It is Singapore’s fourth largest island (excluding the main island). 70% of the island is covered by secondary rainforest, the habitat of monitor lizards, monkeys, peacocks, parrots as well as other native fauna and flora. The island also has 3.2 kilometre stretch of white sand beach. Significantly large portions of land are currently being added to Sentosa due to land reclamation.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Sentosa_map.jpg[/img]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Sentosa Island Resort (Source: Sentosa Development Corporation, Singapore)[/font][/color] [color=Blue][size=2][font=comic sans ms]Transport[/font][/size][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]Sentosa can be reached from the Singapore mainland via a short causeway or Cable Car, which originates on Mount Faber and passes through HarbourFront en route.
In the future, the island will also be accessible by a SGD$140 million Sentosa Express between Sentosa and the main island's train system from VivoCity. When it becomes operational in January 2007, visitors can easily transfer from the North East MRT Line at HarbourFront MRT Station onto the Sentosa Express, which will then bring tourists directly into the island in well under four minutes. When this is completed, an uninterrupted chain of public transport will exist between Sentosa and most of the residential towns in Singapore.
Transport within Sentosa is now served by four bus services, identified as Blue, Yellow, Red and Green lines, and by a tram service called the Beach Train. Since 1998, passenger cars are allowed to enter the island.[/color][/font]
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[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]A Volvo B7RLE on the Blue Line. Buses currently serve as the main means of getting to and around Sentosa.[/font][/color] [color=Blue][size=2][font=comic sans ms]Attractions[/font][/size][/color]
[color=comic sans ms][font=Tahoma]Sentosa offers a variety of attractions, museums and other facilities to provide a variety of experiences, recreation and entertainment to visitors.[/font][/color]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Carlsberg Sky Tower[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]The Carlsberg Sky Tower is the tallest free-standing observation tower in Asia. At a height of 110 metres above ground and 131 metres above sea level, it offers visitors a panoramic view of Sentosa, Singapore, and the Southern Islands. On a clear day, the view extends to parts of Malaysia and Indonesia. At ground level, visitors enter a large disc-shaped airconditioned cabin fitted with glass windows all round. The cabin then revolves slowly as it ascends the column of the tower. The cabin has a capacity of 72 visitors.
The Sky Tower, first opened on 7 February 2004, is situated in the Imbiah Lookout zone in the centre of Sentosa and can be reached by Cable Car, Sentosa Luge Chair Lift, or by bus.[/color][/font]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Butterfly Park[/font][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]The Butterfly Park is a landscape garden with over 15,000 live butterflies, representing more than fifty species. Housed in a cool outdoor conservatory, these butterflies range from the 25 millimetre (1 in) Eurema sari to the 150 mm (6 in) Papilio iswara.[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Insect Kingdom[/color][/font]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]The Insect Kingdom houses some 3,000 species of rare insects from around the world, including a 160 mm Dynastes Hercules beetle[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Underwater World[/color][/font]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]Underwater World is an oceanarium located on the western part of Sentosa. Opened in 1991, the living museum has more than 2,500 marine animals of 250 species from different regions of the world. The oceanarium is underground and has an 83 metre long travelator that moves visitors along a submerged glass-windowed tunnel from which they can look at an array of marine life including coral reef, stringrays, moray eels, turtles, sharks, and other fishes.
The Underwater World also includes a Dolphin Lagoon which is home to some Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, also known as the pink dolphins. Several "Meet-the-Dolphins" sessions are held daily to allow visitors to enter the waist-deep pool and interact with the dolphins at close proximity. [5][/color][/font]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Musical Fountain[/color][/font]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]The Musical Fountain introduces the history of Sentosa through the use of a water fountain, lasers, and music. The refractive and reflective effect of the lasers against water particles from several directions create a three-dimensional image.[/font][/color]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Fort Siloso[/font][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]In the west of the island stand the guns of preserved Fort Siloso which guarded the western approaches to Singapore during World War II. Fort Siloso was built by the British in 1880s to guard the narrow western entrance to Keppel Harbour. It was later modernised and by 1939 was armed with two 6-inch Mark2 guns and two rapid firing 12-pounder guns. Fort Siloso is now the only surviving coastal gun battery from the twelve such batteries that made up Fortress Singapore at the start of the war. [6]
The ammunition bunkers, barracks, tunnels, and gun emplacements of the fort are now open to visitors, as a military-themed attraction. Also on display is a collection of artillery guns dating from the 17th century to World War II. Life-sized replicas of British soldiers and other people were on display to depict lives at the fort in the past. There is also an exhibition with a large collection of photographs, documents and film clips.[/font][/color]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Merlion[/font][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]The Merlion statue recalls the story of the legendary Sang Nila Utama, who saw a lion in Singapore (originally known as Temasek) while hunting. The 37 metre (12 storey) high statue can be entered through the ground floor, and one can take the lift up to 12th floor to view the city state. Opened in 1996, it is the tallest Merlion in Singapore and has been undergoing renovation since 2005.[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Sentosa Luge[/color][/font]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]The Sentosa Luge is a self-steering, gravity-driven three-wheel cart. Originated from New Zealand, the non-motorised cart allows rider to speed down a hill over a course of 650 m ending at the Siloso Beach.[/color][/font] [color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Carlsberg Sky Tower[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Carlsberg_Sky_Tower_2.JPG[/img]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Carlsberg Sky Tower[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/SingaporeCBD_from_Carlsberg_Sky_Tower.jpg[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Singapore Central Business District from the Carlsberg Sky Tower[/color][/font]
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[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Operation[/font][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]At ground level, visitors enter a large disc-shaped air-conditioned cabin fitted with glass windows all round. The cabin revolves slowly as it ascends the tower.[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Other facts[/font][/color]
Tower height: [color=Purple]110 metres (360 feet)[/color]
Viewing height: [color=Purple]131 metres (430 feet) [/color]
Tower column diameter:[color=Purple] 2.5 metres (8.2 feet) [/color]
Foundation diameter: [color=Purple]15 metres (50 feet) [/color]
Cabin capacity: [color=Purple]72 persons[/color]
Weight of Tower: [color=Purple]200 metric tonnes (197 tonnes) [/color][/font]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Construction[/color][/font]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]The Sky Tower was manufactured by HUSS Maschinenfabrik of Bremen, Germany. The Sky Tower was fabricated within 6 months at HUSS's factory in Europe. Construction of the Tower in Singapore was completed in 12 weeks.
The Sky Tower opened to public on 7 February 2004.[/color][/font]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Management[/color][/font]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]Sky Tower Pte Ltd is a project conceived by Melchers Project Management Pte Ltd.
Melchers Project Management, being the managing shareholder of Sky Tower Pte Ltd, runs the daily operations of the Carlsberg Sky Tower in close co-operation with Sentosa Leisure Group (SLG). SLG is Sky Tower’s Operations, Marketing, Sales and Ticketing agent.
Carlsberg is the name sponsor of the Sky Tower.[/font][/color]
[[i] 本帖最后由 天真无邪小猪猪 于 19/12/2006 11:23 PM 编辑 [/i]] [size=2][color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Underwater World, Singapore[/font][/color][/size]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]Underwater World (Chinese: 圣淘沙海底世界) is an oceanarium located on the offshore Singapore island of Sentosa. Opened in 1991, it has more than 2,500 marine animals of 250 species from different regions of the world. The oceanarium is underground and it is owned by HawPar Corp. The Underwater World's ticket includes admission to the Dolphin Lagoon at Palawan Beach.
Underwater World has a 83 metre long travelator that moves visitors along a submerged glass-windowed tunnel from which they can look at an array of marine life including coral reef, stringrays, moray eels, turtles, sharks, and other fishes.
Underwater World is also involved in a number of environmental and education projects.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Underwater_World%2C_Singapore_4%2C_Sentosa%2C_Aug_06.JPG[/img]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Entrance of Underwater World, Singapore.[/font][/color]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Dolphin Lagoon[/font][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]The Dolphin Lagoon is home to some Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, also known as the pink dolphins. Several "Meet-the-Dolphins" sessions are held daily to allow visitors to enter the waist-deep pool and interact closely with the dolphins. The ticket to the Underwater world & dolphin show does not include the direct contact to the dolphins for which an extra fee has to be paid[/font][/color]
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[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Shark in Underwater World.[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Effect of plans for Sentosa Integrated Resort[/color][/font]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]On 6 December 2006, the Underwater World launched three new attractions — an interactive stingray feeding pool, a display of small marine reef species, and Singapore's first fish reflexology spa, where spa fish gently nibble away at the dead skin on visitors' feet. The new features cost S$500,000.
This was amid major plans that were being proposed for Sentosa's integrated resorts. Genting International's S$5.2 billion proposal, Resorts World, will feature the world's largest oceanarium — the 8-hectare Quest Marine Life Park — which will house 700,000 marine animals in a 30 million litre lagoon. Rival bidder Kerzner-CapitaLand's proposal will have an even larger marine habitat, with a capacity of 109 million litres, including the world's largest jellyfish enclosure and a man-made reef for diving and snorkelling.[1][/font][/color]
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[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Dolphin performing an agile feat at the Dolphin Lagoon.[/color][/font] 上次去Sentosa我们有爬到鱼尾狮的顶部:cool:
小猪猪，如果这些贴子的内容是用华语介绍的话
我相信会更好啦:good: [color=Blue][size=2][font=comic sans ms]Fort Siloso[/font][/size][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]Fort Siloso is the sole restored coastal gun battery from the twelve such batteries which made up "Fortress Singapore" at the start of World War II. Siloso is a Philippine word meaning jealous person.
The Fort is situated on the theme park island of Sentosa, restored as a museum, and open for public viewership.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Fort_Siloso%2C_Sentosa%2C_Aug_06.JPG[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Fort Siloso[/color][/font]
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[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Gunners at work on a 6 Inch Gun emplacement at Fort Siloso before World War II[/color][/font]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]History[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]From the 1920s, Japan had begun to emerge as a serious threat to British outposts in the Far East. With drastic cuts in her defence budget after World War I, the British could no longer maintain a strong permanent naval presence in the area. Britain therefore decided to implement the "Main fleet to Singapore" strategy, to defend not only Singapore, but the rest of her empire in the Far East, and Australasia.
Singapore's strategic location as the western gateway to the Far East prompted Britain's Overseas Defence Committee to choose her, in 1921, as the site for a naval base. The Main Fleet would be based in Europe. It would sail to Singapore to protect Britain's Far East interests and possessions should they be threatened.
The success of this strategy hinged on the swift dispatch of the Main Fleet, and on keeping Singapore secure until it arrived. To the British Overseas Defence Committee, it seemed clear that an attack could come from the sea and, or from Johore. They therefore devised a strategy that took these alternatives into account.
By 1939, the main defences of Singapore consisted of a series of 12 Coastal Artillery Batteries. Contrary to popular belief, the guns were made to fire both landward and seaward.
Certain that the Japanese would first attack from the sea, the British defence planners were confident that the Main Fleet and reinforcements would arrive in Singapore well before any landward attack. It was however a disastrous mistake as the Japanese later invaded from the north during the Battle of Singapore.[/color][/font]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Main coastal batteries in the south of Singapore[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Johore Battery[/color]
[color=Black]Two of the Johore Battery's three 15" guns had all round traverse and could be fired landward. However, they were equipped only with ammunition to counter armoured ships and were not effective against land troops and field artillery.[/color]
[color=Blue]Fort Siloso[/color]
[color=Black]Fort Siloso guarded the narrow western entrance to Keppel Harbour. By 1939, there were two 6-inch MK2 guns and one rapid firing 12 Pounder gun.[/color]
[color=Blue]Buona Vista Battery[/color]
[color=Black]The two 15" guns at Buona Vista Battery had only a limited traverse of about 180 degrees. Given their limited traverse, they could only shell sections of the southwest coast of Johore.[/color]
[color=Blue]Labrador Battery[/color]
[color=Black]Built in 1939, the Labrador Battery had a complex of gun emplacement and gun turret with two 6-inch guns facing south. The guns had a range of over 10 miles, firing 102-pound shells using 31-pound cartridges.[/color][/font] [size=2][color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Merlion[/font][/color][/size]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]The merlion (Simplified Chinese: 鱼尾狮; pinyin: Yúwěishī) is a statue with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Its name comes from a portmanteau of mermaid and lion. The merlion was designed by Fraser Brunner for the Singapore Tourism Board in 1964 and was used as its logo up to 1997. The Merlion continues to be its trademark symbol. It also appears frequently in STB-approved souvenirs. The original Merlion statue stands at the opening of the Singapore River while a taller replica can be found on Sentosa Island.
According to the Singapore Tourism Board's publicity campaign, the lion head and fish body of the creature recalls the story of the legendary Sang Nila Utama, who saw a lion while hunting on an island, en route to Malacca. The island eventually became the sea port of Temasek, a precursor to Singapore.[/color][/font]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Merlion.jpg[/img]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]The Merlion is one of the most well-known tourist icons of Singapore. Its landmark statue, once at the Merlion Park, was relocated to the front of the Fullerton Hotel in April 2002.[/font][/color]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Merlion spruce-up[/font][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]From 5 June 2006 till 10 July 2006, the Merlion underwent a spruce-up. Visitors were greeted with illustrated hoardings and canvases covering the safety nettings. The illustrations were designed by Miel, an award-winning senior artist at The Straits Times.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Merlion_takes_a_shower.jpg[/img]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]The Merlion undergoing a spruce-up[/font][/color]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Other Merlions[/font][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]There are five official Merlions approved by the Singapore Tourism Board. This includes two at the Merlion Park (the work of sculptor Lim Nang Seng. finished in 1972) sculptor , one is the smaller Merlion and the other the main Merlion.
Other Merlions include:
The one at Sentosa, which is a taller replica
Mount Faber
Tourism Court at Orchard Spring Lane [/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/MerlionSentosa.jpg[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]The Merlion on Sentosa[/color][/font]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Fake Merlions[/color][/font]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]There have been a number of reports of unapproved Merlions in both Singapore and the People's Republic of China. In Singapore, the fake Merlion was located at Ang Mo Kio (it has since been removed). There are many imitation Merlions in China, with some appearing in housing estates and commercial areas.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Merlion-Mount_Faber.jpg[/img]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]The Merlion on Mount Faber[/font][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]The Merlion in art and popular culture[/color][/font]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Black]Edwin Thumboo cemented the iconic status of the Merlion as a personification of Singapore with his poem Ulysses by the Merlion in 1979. Due to Thumboo's status as Singapore's unofficial poet laureate and the nationalistic mythmaking qualities of his poetry, future generations of Singaporean poets have struggled with the symbol of the Merlion, frequently taking an ironic, critical, or even hostile stand - and pointing out its artificiality and the refusal of ordinary Singaporeans to accept a tourist attraction as their national icon. According to this article, the poem "attracted considerable attention among subsequent poets, who have all felt obliged to write their own Merlion (or anti-Merlion) poems, illustrating their anxiety of influence, as well as the continuing local fascination with the dialectic between a public and a private role for poets, which Thumboo (as Yeats before him, in the Irish context) has wanted to sustain as a fruitful rather than a tense relation between the personal and the public." Among the poems of this nature are Merlign by Alvin Pang and Love Song for a Merlionby Vernon Chan.
---The Merlion was featured - or not featured, depending on how you look at it - in the 2005 Venice Biennale in the work of artist Lim Tzay Chuen called "Mike". In his controversial work, he had proposed taking the sculpture in the Merlion Park to the Singapore Pavilion at the exhibition. The request was refused by the authorities.
---The Merlion has also appeared in a number of films and television series, becoming almost a visual cliché to Singapore as the Eiffel Tower is to Paris.
---It also notably appeared in the anime Cowboy Bebop, where its appearance in an ancient home movie offered amnesiac bounty hunter Faye Valentine a clue to her true origins.
---A merlion can also be seen on the Crest of the 8th Marines in the United States Marine Corps. [1] [/color][/font] [size=2][color=Blue][/color][font=comic sans ms]Mount Faber[/font][/size]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]Mount Faber, formerly known as Telok Blangah Hill, is a hill about 106 metres in height in Singapore, located near the Bukit Merah planning area in the Central Region. It overlooks the Telok Blangah area, and the western parts of the Central Area. The summit is accessible by road, but there are many footpaths leading up the hill.
It is a frequent tourist destination, as it provides a panoramic view of the increasingly dense central business district within the Central Area. Its slope includes a tower that is part of the Singapore cable car system that connects to HarbourFront and Sentosa. It is accessible from the HarbourFront MRT Station.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Faber_Point_4%2C_Nov_06.JPG[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Faber Point, the highest point on Mount Faber, overlooks Telok Blangah and the city area.[/color][/font]
[color=Blue][size=1][font=comic sans ms]History[/font][/size][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]Mount Faber was known as Telok Blangah Hill but was later renamed after Captain Charles Edward Faber of the Madras Engineers, the superintending engineer in the Straits and Governor Butterworth's brother-in-law, who arrived in Singapore in September 1844. Faber cut through the thick undergrowth, allowing the road to the top of the hill to be built. The original winding road was referred to in the press at that time as a "stupidly narrow word".
The article also questioned the change of the name from what it deemed its originally more appropriate Malay name. A signal station was erected on the hill in 1845, and the Malay used to refer to the hill as Bukit Bendara (Flag Hill). This signal station was transferred from Pulau Blakang Mati (now Sentosa) because of the "injurious miasma" on the island.
After the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Straits government decided to convert Mount Faber into a fort for fear of revolt among the local Indian sepoys. Defence work was carried out and granite emplacements for guns were completed halfway up the hill, but Mount Faber never became a fort. An observatory was built there in 1905.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/The_Jewel_Box%2C_Nov_06.JPG[/img]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]The Jewel Box on Mount Faber houses the cable car station to Sentosa.[/font][/color]
[color=Blue][size=1][font=comic sans ms]Geography[/font][/size][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]The vegetation around Mount Faber is secondary rainforest that is smaller and less dense than on Bukit Timah Hill. Mount Faber is one of the higher hills in Singapore at 106 metres, behind the Bukit Timah Hill (164 m) and Bukit Gombak (133 m and 113 m). It is separated from the adjacent slightly lower Telok Blangah Hill by Henderson Road.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Mount_Faber_Park%2C_panorama%2C_Nov_06.jpg[/img]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Panoramic view of HarbourFront from Mount Faber Park.[/font][/color]
[[i] 本帖最后由 天真无邪小猪猪 于 20/12/2006 04:35 PM 编辑 [/i]] [color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Love Song For A Merlion[/font][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]There are days at the beach
when the hours are empty
I witness the mailed horseshoe crabs,
smiles on their faces,
swimming almost onto land.
Minnows crowd,
leaping out of the water in unison
and bite my legs.
A solitary gull approaches
then leaves the beach
flies, scouring the water
from above.
I am at peace,
and whatever transpired on land
is forgotten.[/font][/color] [color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Sentosa Luge[/font][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]Sentosa Luge is a luge located in Sentosa, Singapore. It opened in the second half of 2005. The luge is situated on the Imbiah Lookout cluster opposite the Carlsberg Sky Tower, and has a length of 650 metres. The luge is a self-driving car system in which riders control the speed by pushing a pair of handlebars back and forth. The luge ride goes downhill, relying on gravitational pull to move. Although this ride is not as long or as thrilling as the ones in New Zealand, it is good for people who want an adrenaline rush without a car. After the ride, the Skyride using chairlifts brings riders back up to the starting point.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Sentosa_Luge.JPG[/img]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Aerial view[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Sentosaclugeh.JPG[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Skyride[/color][/font] [size=2][color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]Defunct attractions[/font][/color][/size]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Fantasy Island[/color]
[color=Black]Fantasy Island was a water based theme park in Sentosa. Opened in 1994 at a cost of S$54 million, it had numerous water slides and other features. Once a very popular park, it was plagued by several accidents, including two fatalities, and was eventually closed on 2 November 2002.[/color]
[color=Magenta]Volcanoland[/color]
[color=Black]Volcanoland featured an artificial volcano along with Mayan motifs and scenery. The integrated resort will be built over this site.[/color][/font] [color=Blue][/color][font=comic sans ms][size=2][color=Blue]Beaches[/color][/size][/font]
[font=comic sans ms]Sentosa has a stretch of sheltered beach of more than two kilometres in length on its southern coast, divided into three portions: Palawan Beach, Siloso Beach, and Tanjong Beach. These beaches are artificial, reclaimed using sand bought from Indonesia and Malaysia.
[color=Magenta]Palawan Beach[/color]
Palawan Beach lies in the centre of the southern coast of Sentosa. There is a suspension bridge that leads to a small islet off the coast which is said to be the Southernmost Point of Continental Asia, or Asia's closest point to the Equator. [7]
There are several bars along the beach offering food and beverage to visitors.
[color=Magenta]Siloso Beach[/color]
Siloso Beach lies on the west portion of the southern coast and it is known as the place for beach volleyball and other outdoor activities such as canoeing, skim boarding, mountain biking or rollerblading. There are also dining and shopping outlets along the beach. The Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa Resort is located at the western end of Siloso Beach.
[color=Blue]Tanjong Beach[/color]
Tanjong Beach is a relatively more secluded part of the southern coast. The crescent-shaped beach is sometimes used for special events or parties.[/font]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Southernmost-island-Sentosa-Singapore-01.JPG[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]The Southernmost Island of Sentosa, connected to Palawan Beach by a bridge.[/color][/font]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Tanjong-beach-Sentosa-signboard.JPG[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]The entrance signboard to Tanjong Beach.[/color][/font]
[[i] 本帖最后由 天真无邪小猪猪 于 20/12/2006 04:47 PM 编辑 [/i]] [color=Blue][size=2][font=comic sans ms]Other facilities[/font][/size][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Blue]Hotels[/color]
[color=Black]There are four hotels in Sentosa:
---Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa is a beachfront five-star hotel located at the western tip of Siloso beach, with 459 rooms and suites.
---The Sentosa Resort & Spa is a five-star hotel with 214 rooms and suites. The hotel's Spa Botanica has facilities including mud pools and Turkish-styled steam baths.
---Costa Sands Resort operates a number of chalets and 15 kampung-like huts. It is located on a hill overlooking Siloso Beach.
---Sijori Resort is a 64 room hotel located behind the Merlion together with the Sijori WonderGolf facility.
---Siloso Beach Resort opened in July 2006. It has 182 rooms to choose from their Superior, Deluxe and Roof Garden Suite. [/color][/font] [color=Blue][size=2][font=comic sans ms]Events[/font][/size][/color]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Singapore Open[/color]
[color=Black]The 2005 Singapore Open golf event was held during 8-11 September at the Sentosa Golf Club's Serapong Course. It is the richest golf tournament which is exclusive to the Asian Tour with a US$2 million prize fund. [3][/color]
[color=Magenta]Sentosa Balloon Hats Festival[/color]
[color=Black]The Sentosa Balloon Hats Festival began in 2004. It is a gathering of local secondary school bands who would do display marches along the beach from Tanjong Beach to Palawan Beach before a mass display event. The participants would wear balloon hats made by themselves and each school comes up with their unique design. At the end of the event, all the students would pop their balloons followed by a release of a large number of balloons into the air. The event began as part of an attempt to create the world record for the gathering of the largest number of balloon hats. But since then, it had developed into a full scale annual event with performances around the whole island before the marching event began.[/color]
[color=Magenta]Beach parties[/color]
[color=Black]The Siloso Beach in Sentosa is host to the annual ZoukOut beach dance party organised by Zouk nightclub. On 10 December 2005, some 18,000 people attended the event. [8]
A new year eve party, Siloso NYE Splash is also held annually at the Siloso Beach. On 31 December 2005, the party attracted some 15,000 people.[/color]
[color=Magenta]Sentosa Flowers 2006[/color]
[color=Black]Beginning in February 2005, the Sentosa Flowers event is held at the Fountain Gardens, exhibiting a variety of flora and herbs. The festival, which coincides with the Chinese New Year or the "Spring Festival" celebration in Singapore, hosts other activities including a mural painting competition, photograph competitions and a festival market for gardening enthusiasts[/color][/font] [color=Blue][size=2][font=comic sans ms]Future development[/font][/size][/color]
[color=Black][font=comic sans ms]Future plans by the government for Sentosa aims to establish it as one of the world's most luxurious holiday locations, with a SGD$10 billion masterplan for the future involving the construction of private housing at the Sentosa Cove, the aforementioned partial redevelopment of Siloso Beach, and Asia's first tourism academy. Three hotels will be completed from 2007 to 2008 with the Siloso Beach Resort by NTUC Club recently completed in the second half of 2006. A 120 room boutique resort known as Amara Sanctuary Resort Sentosa will be built with the conservation of two colonial-era buildings as well as a new hotel building in a more secluded area of Sentosa, it will be completed in the second half of 2007. Another hotel developed by Pontiac Land will be known as The Capella Singapore which is expected to be completed in 2008. It is a six-star resort with 170 rooms designed by Norman Foster with Robert Burns managing the hotel. NTUC Club is developing a second resort known as Palawan Beach Resort with 200 rooms at a cost of S$45 million. These large scale island redevelopment projects are expected to complete in 2012.
The largest impact is expected to be from a family-oriented Integrated Resort, with a casino at its core. This Integrated Resort is expected to be completed in late 2009 or the beginning of 2010. A resort developer and operator was chosen on 8 December 2006. The winning proposal was the Genting/Star Cruises consortium in their bid for Resorts World Sentosa. It will have a Universal Studios Theme Park, to be known as Universal Studios Singapore which will occupy nearly half of the resort space. Development of the resort will be financed privately at a cost of S$5.2 billion and will not receive any government subsidies. The proposal for a casino has met with extensive opposition from many conservative critics. Nevertheless, the government has constantly reassured that there would be stringent measures in place, to maintain the social fabric of the nation, and to prevent problems such as gambling addiction.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Sentosa%2C_Montage%2C_Aug_06.JPG[/img]
[color=Blue][font=comic sans ms]A montage of Sentosa.[/font][/color] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Sentosa_Singapore_Cable_cars.jpg[/img]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Cable cars to Sentosa.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Singapore_cable_car_station.jpg[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Cable car station.[/color][/font]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Carlsberg_Sky_Tower.JPG[/img]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Carlsberg Sky Tower.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Sentosaaunderwaterm.JPG[/img]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]A crab exhibit at Underwater World.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Sentosadfountainc.JPG[/img]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Musical fountain at night.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Sentosa-Fort_Siloso.jpg[/img]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Fort Siloso.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Sentosa_Luge.JPG[/img]
[color=Magenta][font=comic sans ms]Sentosa Luge.[/font][/color]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Sentosa_siloso_beach.jpg[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Siloso beach in Sentosa, showing a sheltered cove with a sandy beach used for recreation. The building in the background is the Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa Resort.[/color][/font]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Tanjong-beach-palm-tree-Sentosa.JPG[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]Palm trees sway in sunny Tanjong Beach.[/color][/font]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Tanjong_Beach%2C_Sentosa%2C_Aug_06.JPG[/img]
[font=comic sans ms][color=Magenta]A signboard with the words "Tanjong Beach" on it.[/color][/font] [size=4]现在到圣淘沙岛又多了一交通工具选择〉〉[/size][size=6]Sentosa Express monorail[/size]
[align=center][size=7][color=DarkGreen]Sentosa Express, Singapore[/color][/size][/align]
[align=center][i][size=4]Photos courtesy of Yoshitaka Hirabaya[/size][/i][/align]
[align=center][img]http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/CnstSent02.jpg[/img][/align]
[align=center][size=4]Welcome to Singapore! Hitachi Asia Ltd. has has been hard at work on the $78 million (J¥5.4 billion) "Sentosa Express" monorail. Thanks to [font=Impact]Yoshitaka Hirabaya[/font] of Hitachi, we are pleased to bring you the first pictures of this beautiful monorail. Even though the system is not open yet, landscaping is already quite extensive. Nothing like real greenery to make a monorail pylon look pretty![/size][/align] [align=center][img]http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/CnstSent01.jpg[/img][/align]
[align=center][size=4]The 2.1 km long double track line will link the main island of Singapore and Sentosa Island, with gateway stations at World Trade Centre's Harbour Front MRT Station and Central Beach on Sentosa. The line will improve access to Sentosa Island from the southernmost tip of Singapore. The monorail route will have four stations. The Sentosa Express will be the first in the world to use the new Hitachi Small monorail system. The system was originally developed by Hitachi in Japan as a small, standard and cost-effective solution to the transportation needs of small to medium-sized cities. The monorail replaces an old Von Roll monorail that circled the island from 1981 to March of 2005 (light gray line that loops the island on this map). The black triangles indicate where photographs were taken for this page.[/size][/align][color=white]
[[i] 本帖最后由 天地志狼 于 21/12/2006 08:53 AM 编辑 [/i]] [align=center][img]http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/CnstSent03.jpg[/img][/align]
[size=4][align=center]Hitachi's new flat-sided guideway is slightly wider than that of the track at Walt Disney World and Las Vegas Monorail. See our Alweg Beam Comparison Chart for a comparison of track sizes. This stretch of track will undoubtedly be one of the most photographed sections, as it crosses the beautiful Causeway Bridge to Sentosa Island.[/align][/size] [align=center][img]http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/CnstSent04.jpg[/img][/align]
[align=center][size=4]This station is located half way across the island next to a large lion statue known as The Merlion.[/size][/align] [align=center][img]http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/CnstSent05.jpg[/img][/align]
[align=center][size=4]Monorail riders will be under the watchful eye of The Merlion.[/size][/align] [align=center][img]http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/CnstSent06.jpg[/img][/align]
[align=center][size=4]Near the southernmost tip of continental Asia is Beach Station. A stylish roofline and lush landscaping help make this a wonderful looking transit facility. Now let's have a first look at the first Hitachi Small monorail trains![/size][/align] [align=center][img]http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/CnstSent07.jpg[/img][/align]
[align=center][size=4]Say hello to Miss Blue! The Sentosa Express trains are a colorful assortment of two-car trains. We're at the storage/maintenance facility and Miss Blue is sitting on a transfer track switch.[/size][/align] [align=center][img]http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/CnstSent08.jpg[/img][/align]
[align=center][size=4]Even though the Hitachi Small class of monorail is smaller than Hitachi's other monorail systems, it still features a flat floor and walk-through trains. To reduce weight, bogies are shared between cars.[/size][/align] [align=center][img]http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/CnstSent09.jpg[/img][/align]
[align=center][size=4]Train-to-train transfers are possible through doors at each end, as well as side-to-side transfers.[/size][/align] [align=center][img]http://www.monorails.org/webpix%202/CnstSent10.jpg[/img][/align]
[align=center][size=4]Hello Miss Orange. What an unusual combination of colors you have.[/size][/align]
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