Dalhousie Obelisk
The Dalhousie Obelisk is a memorial obelisk in the Civic District of Singapore, located on the north bank of the Singapore River in the Downtown Core, within the Central Area in Singapore's central business district.
Sengkang, Copyrighted free use.- Monument
- …lies at an elevation of 8 metres (26 feet)
- …is inscribed with “Erected by the European, Chinese and native inhabitants of Singapore to commemorate the visit in the month of February 1850 of the most noble The Marquis of Dalhousie, K.T. Governor General of British India, on which occasion he emphatically recognized...”
- Description: monument in Empress Place, Singapore
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Dalhousie Obelisk
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Latitude
1.28745° or 1° 17′ 15″ north
Longitude
103.85222° or 103° 51′ 8″ east
Open location code
6PH57VP2+XV
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Hungarian to Spanish—“Dalhousie Obelisk” goes by many names.
- Hungarian: “Dalhousie-obeliszk”
- Spanish: “Obelisco de Dalhousie”
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