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Pedra Branca

Pedra Branca, also known as Batu Putih, is an outlying island and the easternmost point of Singapore. The name of the island, which is Portuguese for "white rock", refers to whitish guano deposited on the rock.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Islet
  • Description: territory of Singapore
  • Also known as: “Horsburgh”, “Pedera Branca Horsburgh”, “Pedra Blanca”, “Pedra Branca, Singapore”, and “Pedra Brance”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Horsburgh Lighthouse.

Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is an active lighthouse which marks the eastern entrance to the Straits of Singapore. It is situated on the island of Pedra Branca. 's earliest lighthouse by date of completion, it is located approximately 54 kilometres to the east of Singapore and 14 kilometres from the state of Johor.

Pedra Branca

Latitude
1.3304° or 1° 19′ 50″ north
Longitude
104.40587° or 104° 24′ 21″ east
Open location code
6PH68CJ4+58
Open­Street­Map ID
way 469394519
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
1880787
Wiki­data ID
Q1190558
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Satellite Map

Discover Pedra Branca from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Pedra Branca” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Pedra Branca”
  • Chinese: “白礁”
  • Chinese: “白礁岛”
  • Dutch: “Pedra Branca”
  • Finnish: “Pedra Branca”
  • French: “Pedra Branca”
  • German: “Pedra Branca”
  • Indonesian: “Pedra Branca”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Batu Puteh”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Batu Putih”
  • Italian: “Pedra Branca (Singapore)”
  • Italian: “Pedra Branca”
  • Japanese: “ペドラ・ブランカ”
  • Japanese: “ペドラ・ブランカ島”
  • Japanese: “白礁”
  • Korean: “페드라브랑카섬”
  • Malay: “Batu Puteh”
  • Malay: “Pedra Branca, Laut China Selatan”
  • Malay: “Pedra Branca”
  • Malay: “Pulau Batu Puteh (Pedra Branca)”
  • Malay: “Pulau Batu Putih”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Pedra Branca”
  • Portuguese: “Pedra Branca”
  • Russian: “Педра-Бранка (Сингапур)”
  • Russian: “Педра-Бранка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pedra Branca (Singapur)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pedra Branca”
  • Sinhala: “පේද්‍රා බ්‍රන්කා, සිංගප්පූරුව”
  • Sinhala: “පේද්‍රා බ්‍රන්කා”
  • Spanish: “Pedra Branca”
  • Swedish: “Pedra Branca, Singapore”
  • Swedish: “Pedra Branca”
  • Tamil: “பெத்ரா பிராங்கா”
  • Tamil: “வெண்பாறைத் தீவு”
  • Turkish: “Pedra Branca (ada)”
  • Turkish: “Pedra Branca”
  • Ukrainian: “Педра Бранка”
  • Vietnamese: “Pedra Branca, Singapore”
  • Vietnamese: “Pedra Branca”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pedra Branca”. Photo: Khairul Nizam, CC BY 2.0.