Kallang Basin (; ) is an enclosed bay in

Kallang Kallang ( ) is a Planning Areas of Singapore, planning area and New towns of Singapore, residential zone located in the Central Region, Singapore, Central Region of Singapore. Development of the town is centered around the Kallang River, the l ...

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

. The

Kallang River The Kallang River (, ) is the longest river in Singapore, flowing for 10 kilometers from the Lower Peirce Reservoir (originally named "Kallang River Reservoir") to the Kallang Basin. It originates in the Planning Areas of Singapore, planning ar ...

Rochor River The Rochor River ( zh, s=梧槽河; ) is a small, canalised river in Kallang of the Central Region in Singapore. The river is about 0.8 km in length. Description The Rochor River is a continuation of the Rochor Canal, and begins ben ...

and

Geylang River Geylang River (; Simplified Chinese: 芽茏河) is a canalised river flowing from Geylang to Kallang, in the Central Region of Singapore. With the formation of the Marina Reservoir after the completion of the Marina Barrage in 2008, the river now ...

empty into the Kallang Basin. The

Marina Channel Marina Channel is a waterway in southern Singapore that connects the Kallang Basin in the north and Marina Bay, Singapore, Marina Bay in the west to the Singapore Straits in the south. Formed as a result of land reclamation in the 1980s, the Mar ...

connects the Kallang Basin with the

Singapore Straits The Singapore Strait is a , strait between the Strait of Malacca in the west and the South China Sea in the east. Singapore is on the north of the channel, and the Indonesian Riau Islands are on the south. The two countries share a maritime ...

. Currently, the Kallang Basin is part of the Marina Reservoir, as are the rivers that flow into the Kallang Basin and their tributaries. The reservoir has a catchment size of nearly one-sixth of mainland Singapore's land area. The Kallang Basin is a popular location for water sports, in particular, kayaking and dragon boating. Today, the area surrounding the body of water is also frequently called "Kallang Basin". The term has been applied to the industrial estates along

Kallang Bahru Kallang Bahru is a subzone within the planning area of Kallang, Singapore, as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). This subzone is bounded by Bendemeer Road and Sungei Whampoa in the north; the Kallang River in the east; Kallang ...

, the Kallang Basin Swimming Complex, amongst others.

Landmarks

Modern landmarks

Singapore Sports Hub The Singapore Sports Hub (; Malay: Hab Sukan Singapura; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் விளையாட்டு மையம்) is a sports and recreation district in Kallang, Singapore. The Sports Hub is a 35-hectare public- ...

National Stadium Many countries have a national sport stadium, which typically serves as the primary or exclusive home for one or more of a country's national representative sports teams. The term is most often used in reference to an association football ...

Singapore Indoor Stadium The Singapore Indoor Stadium, known exonymously as the Indoor Stadium, is an indoor arena located in Kallang, Singapore. It is within walking distance of the Singapore National Stadium, and collectively form a part of the wider Singapore S ...

** Kallang Wave Mall *

Kallang Theatre Kallang Theatre is a 1,744-seat theatre in Kallang, Singapore. Located at 1A Stadium Walk, Singapore 397689 within the Singapore Sports Hub, beside Leisure Park Kallang and Stadium MRT station, Kallang Theatre is managed by Sport Singapore. Hi ...

* Leisure Park Kallang * Kallang Riverside Park *Conserved complex of the former

Kallang Airport Kallang Airport (also known as the Kallang Aerodrome, Kallang Airfield and RAF Kallang) was the first purpose-built civil international airport in Singapore. It was officially opened on 12 June 1937 and was closed in 1955, when its operation ...

*Tanjong Rhu Lookout Tower * Tanjong Rhu Suspension Bridge *

Golden Mile Complex The Golden Mile, formerly Golden Mile Complex (), is an upcoming high-rise commercial and residential building on Beach Road in Kallang, Singapore. Within walking distance to Nicoll Highway MRT station, the building was formerly known as Woh ...

* Merdeka Bridge * Nicoll Highway MRT station *

Stadium MRT station Stadium MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore), Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle MRT line, Circle Line (CCL). Located in the area of Kallang, Central Region, Singapore, Central Region, Singapore, the statio ...

Former landmarks

* Old National Stadium * Kallang Gasworks * Kallang Park *Former headquarters of the Police Coast Guard and Marine Division

Condominiums

*Costa Rhu *Tanjong Ria *Casuarina Cove *Camelot By-The-Water *Pebble Bay *Parkshore *Water Place *Sanctuary Green

History

Landscape

Much of the lands around Kallang Basin are the result of extensive land reclamation. Areas of the modern-day

, the former

, the condominium clusters along Tanjong Rhu Road, the industrial estate at

, and the area south of

Nicoll Highway Nicoll Highway ( , , , ) is a major arterial road in Singapore which links the junctions of Guillemard Road, Sims Way and Mountbatten Road in Kallang to the junctions of Esplanade Drive, Raffles Avenue and Stamford Road in the city. En route, ...

were once part of a much larger Kallang Basin prior to land reclamation. Numerous islands also existed in the Kallang Basin, including Pulau Mengalu which was located at where modern-day Bendemeer MRT station is. At its greatest extent, the Kallang Basin once extended as far north as today's Bendemeer Road. From the late 1960s to early 1970s, the part of Kallang Basin to the north of Kallang Road underwent land reclamation. The

and its tributaries were also canalised to prevent flooding. The Kallang Basin area once formed part of mainland Singapore's southeastern coastline. Its access to the

was only cut off when the

Marina Barrage Marina Barrage is a dam in southern Singapore built at the confluence of five rivers, across the Marina Channel between Marina East and Marina South. First conceptualised in 1987 by then Prime Minister of Singapore, prime minister Lee Kuan Yew t ...

was completed over the

in 2008.

Clean-up

In 1977, a massive ten-year-long clean-up project was embarked by the Singapore Government at the Kallang Basin and the nearby

Singapore River The Singapore River is a river that flows parallel to Alexandra Road and feeds into the Marina Reservoir in the southern part of Singapore. The immediate upper drainage basin, watershed of the Singapore River is known as the Singapore River Plann ...

, transforming them into the clean bodies of water today.

Raffles' landing

While the Raffles' Landing Site on the northern bank of the

is generally thought to be the original landing spot of

Sir Stamford Raffles Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British colonial official who served as the governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. Raffles ...

in 1819, other sources point to the Kallang Basin area as the likely location. According to the Cho Clan Archives, Raffles ordered his ship's carpenter, Chow Ah Chi, to lead the way in posting the

British East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

flag on mainland Singapore and he supposedly landed at the mouth of the

. Raffles, following the route taken by Chow, also arrived at the Kallang Basin in what is today's Kallang Riverside Park. This was possible because the Kallang Basin was directly connected to the open sea at the time of Raffles' founding of modern

References

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