Why is Singapore Called "Singapore" - Indies Gallery Catalogue 2021
Why is Singapore called “Singapore” - A Story Told in Maps by Eric Rosenkranz. The map collection of Sake Rudmer Santema.
Why is Singapore called “Singapore” - A Story Told in Maps by Eric Rosenkranz. The map collection of Sake Rudmer Santema.
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So, clearly, as late as 1755, <strong>Singapore</strong> <strong>is</strong>land was still being called Long Island while the<br />
waterways around it were called the <strong>Singapore</strong> Straits.<br />
Sometime by 1794 had <strong>Singapore</strong> Island had finally adopted the name of its neighbouring<br />
waterway? In th<strong>is</strong> map, named “The Straits Of Sincapore With Those Of Durion, Sabon,<br />
and Mandol” by Thomas Jeffers, Geographer to the King, we read the words “The Old<br />
Straits” and then the word “Sincapore” on the <strong>is</strong>land.<br />
But <strong>is</strong> th<strong>is</strong> word referring now to the name of the <strong>is</strong>land, or <strong>is</strong> it merely the continuation of<br />
the phrase “The Old Straits…”?<br />
In fact, as late as 1803 Brit<strong>is</strong>h maps were still naming <strong>Singapore</strong> Island “Pulo<br />
Panjang” (Long Island). The <strong>is</strong>land appears to have been clearly named “Sincapour” for<br />
possibly the first time in 1823 and spelled “<strong>Singapore</strong>” three years later.
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