 | Sir Arthur James Richens Trendell - Australia - 1886 - 624 pages
...Strait. The area of the territory is 659 square miles. SINGAPORE is an island at the southern extremity of the Malay peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait some three-quarters of a mile in width. It is about 27 miles long by 14 wide, and has an area of 206... | |
 | Great Britain. Colonial Office - Great Britain - 1921 - 690 pages
...about 27 miles by 14 wide, containing an area of 217 square miles, situated at the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait about three-quarters of a mile in width. There are a number of small islands adjacent to it which form part... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1893 - 638 pages
...fourteen wide, with an area of two hundred and six square miles, situated at the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait about three quarters of a mile in width. There are a number of small islands adjacent to it which form part... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Manufactures - Consular reports - 1894 - 862 pages
...occupying the southern point of the island of the same name that lies just off the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait some three-fourths of a mile in width. Situated within 80 miles of the equator (in latitude i° 16'... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 604 pages
...Jnnk-Ceylon, or Nalnnfran, an inland at the 8.K. extremity of the Bay of Bengal, lying on the W, const of the Malay peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow channel. Ext. '2ft miles long, by about 1O broad. Desc. Hilly and fertile, and well adapted for producing... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1904 - 916 pages
...Straits Settlements, belonging to Great Britain, lying at the north .entrance of the Straits of Malacca, off the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a channel two to five miles across. The length of the island is 14 miles ; breadth, 8 miles ; area, about... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 920 pages
...Straits Settlements, belonging to Great Britain, lying at the north entrance of the Straits of Malacca, off the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a channel two to five miles across. The length of the island is 14 miles ; breadth, 8 miles ; area, about... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 908 pages
...Straits Settlements, belonging to Great Britain, lying at the north entrance of the Straits of Malacca, off the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a channel two to five miles across. The length of the island is 14 miles; breadth, 8 miles ; area, about... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 648 pages
...an island belonging to Great Britain, lying at the N. entrance of the Straits of Malacca, off the W. coast of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a channel 2 to 5 miles across ; area, 107 square miles. Penang was made over by treaty to the East India... | |
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Singapore is an island about twenty-seven miles long by fourteen wide, with an area of 206 square miles, situated at the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by a narrow strait about three-quarters of a mile in width.... 
