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Tondong
Tondong ( zh, 短廊) is a settlement on the Sarawak Kanan (right hand, going upstream) river in the Bau, Sarawak, Bau district of Sarawak, Malaysia. It lies approximately southwest of the state capital Kuching. Tondong has about twenty shophouses on roads perpendicular to the river, but some are now used as residences only. The town was flooded to a depth of 4.6 metres in 1963 and to 3.5 metres in 1976. Sir Henry Keppel in 1846 describes Tondong as “quite a new settlement”, and the principal Chinese station in the area. Neighbouring settlements include: *Kampung Siburuh west *Buso, Sarawak, Buso east *Pelaman Mawiang Togug west *Kampung Grogo west *Bau, Sarawak, Bau south *Musi, Sarawak, Musi northeast *Pelaman Tiguduong northwest *Pelaman Sepisa northeast *Kampung Sudoh northeast *Kampung Addis northwest References {{Sarawak Towns in Sarawak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bau, Sarawak
Bau is a gold mining town,"Preston buying into Sarawak goldmine" ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 16 July 2002; capital of Bau district in the Kuching Division of Sarawak, Malaysia. History On 1 May 1837, the Skrang Ibans invaded the Jagoi-Bratak Bidayuh settlement on top of Bratak Peak, killing over 2,000 Jagoi-Bratak Bidayuh men and taking 1,000 women captive. Panglima Kulow, head of Jagoi-Bratak Bidayuh community, and a handful of his followers survived the massacre. In 1841 James Brooke, who was then the newly installed White Rajah of Sarawak, was able to rescue some of the women taken captive. Each year on 1 May, descendants of the survivors of the 1837 massacre hold Jagoi-Bratak Day on top of Bratak Peak in Bau in memory of their ancestors. A memorial stone was erected on 1 May 1988, to mark the day. Gold mining The Chinese first began gold mining in Bau in the 1800s, centred at Pangkalan Tebang. In 1850, more Chinese came from Pemangkat in Dutch Borneo to escape from inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |