Gun Emplacement III
Gun Emplacement III is a battlefield in Singapore. Gun Emplacement III is situated nearby to The Tunnel, as well as near Gun Emplacement IV.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Long Ya Men and Fort Siloso.
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. Long Ya Men is situated 480 metres southeast of Gun Emplacement III.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 1 km southeast of Gun Emplacement III.
Labrador Park
Metro station
Photo: T201911, Public domain.
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 650 metres north of Gun Emplacement III.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Telok Blangah and Alexandra.
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.
Alexandra
Suburb
Alexandra is a subzone region located in the town of Bukit Merah, Singapore. The region comprises two non contiguous neighbourhoods: Alexendra Hill and Alexendra North.
The Interlace
Neighborhood
The Interlace is a 1,040-unit apartment building complex located at the boundary between Bukit Merah and Queenstown, Singapore. Noteworthy for its break from the typical tower design in cities with high population densities, it resembles Jenga blocks or caskets irregularly stacked upon each other.
Gun Emplacement III
- Type: Battlefield
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
1.26644° or 1° 15′ 59″ northLongitude
103.80279° or 103° 48′ 10″ eastOpen location code
6PH57R83+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2292015375OpenStreetMap feature
historic=battlefield
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In Other Languages
“Gun Emplacement III” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “第三炮位”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Tunnel and Gun Emplacement IV.
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