Long Ya Men
Long Ya Men or Longyamen or Dragon's Teeth Gate, is the name that Chinese explorer Wang Dayuan recorded for Batu Belayar, a craggy granite outcrop that formerly stood at the gateway to Keppel Harbour in Singapore.- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: granite outcrop formerly located at Keppel Harbour
- Also known as: “Dragon’s Teeth Gate”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fort Siloso and Telok Blangah.
Fort Siloso
Fort
Photo: Masteraah, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
Fort Siloso is a decommissioned coastal artillery battery in Sentosa, Singapore. It consists of 12 such batteries which made up "Fortress Singapore" at the start of World War II, and saw action during the Battle of Singapore. Fort Siloso is situated 590 metres southeast of Long Ya Men.
Telok Blangah
Metro station
Photo: T201911, Public domain.
Telok Blangah MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Circle Line, situated in Bukit Merah planning area, Singapore. It is located along Telok Blangah Road near the junction of Henderson Road, and primarily serves the residential neighbourhood of Telok Blangah. Telok Blangah is situated 1 km northeast of Long Ya Men.
Labrador Park
Metro station
Photo: ZKang123, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Labrador Park MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Circle Line, located within Bukit Merah planning area, Singapore. Built underneath Telok Blangah Road near the junctions of Alexandra Road and Labrador Villa Road, this station was named after the nearby Labrador Nature Reserve. Labrador Park is situated 1 km north of Long Ya Men.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Telok Blangah and HarbourFront.
Telok Blangah
Suburb
Telok Blangah is a subzone region and housing estate located in the area behind Keppel Harbour in Bukit Merah, Singapore. Telok Blangah is represented by three contiguous subzones of Bukit Merah in URA masterplans: Telok Blangah Drive, Telok Blangah Way and Telok Blangah Rise.
HarbourFront
Suburb
HarbourFront is a waterfront district situated in southern Singapore. Whilst HarbourFront's boundaries are ambiguous, its location is roughly represented on the URA's Master Plan as a subzone called Maritime Square, located within the Bukit Merah Planning Area.
Alexandra
Suburb
Alexandra is a subzone region located in the town of Bukit Merah, Singapore. The region consists of two non contiguous neighbourhoods: Alexendra Hill and Alexendra North.
Long Ya Men
- Categories: destroyed building or structure and tourism
- Location: Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.26297° or 1° 15′ 47″ northLongitude
103.80535° or 103° 48′ 19″ eastInception
2005Open location code
6PH57R74+54OpenStreetMap ID
node 1948666505OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q573956
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Long Ya Men” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “龙牙门”
- German: “Long Ya Men”
- Malay: “Batu Berlayar”
- Malay: “Batu Berlayer”
- Russian: “Ворота драконовых зубов”
- Ukrainian: “Брама Драконових зубів”
- Ukrainian: “Ворота Драконових зубів”
- Ukrainian: “Лонг Йя Мен”
- “Long Ya Men”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Obelisk and Machine Gun Post.
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