We don’t often stop to think where names come from. For example, I’d always assumed that St. John’s Island was named directly for the apostle. It turns out that it’s the anglicized form of the once-named Pulau Sakijang (Island of a Barking Deer), this name being changed more than 200 years ago. St John's was also once known as Pulau Bendera, or Flag Island, after the British used its hill as a point of elevation to signal ships at sea. Now a quiet getaway from the city crowds, the island has played a small but fascinating part in modern Singapore history. It was the first landing point of Sir Stamford Raffles on 28/1/1819 (not by the Singapore River, as is commonly believed) before his historic meeting with Tungku Long. In the late 19th century, St. John’s was our own Ellis Island, used to quarantine immigrants with cholera and beri-beri before they were allowed to continue to the mainland. Post WWII, it was used as a penal colony for political detainees, and subsequently as a rehabilitation centre for opium addicts. In 1975, it was developed into the more visitor-friendly locale that you see today.
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- 20th century U.S. president
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Sources:
http://sgurbex.blogspot.sg/2011/01/pulau-sakijang-bendera-saint-johns.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John%27s_Island
http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_131_2005-01-03.html