
Episode notes
Before Temasek. Before Singapura. Before anyone named this place at all, something had already decided its shape.
Strip away the towers, the cranes and the reclaimed shoreline, and what's left is rock: older and stranger than the city on top of it. Why has this island never trembled like its neighbours? And what did a hill, a river mouth and a slow-moving sea have to do with everything that came later?
Season 1: Before the Lion.
Sources:
Avijit Gupta (ed.), The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia (2005)
Bird, Taylor & Hunt, "Palaeoenvironments of Insular Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period," Quaternary Science Reviews 24 (2005)
From Serai Tour Services. seraitour.com/temasek-timeline
Keywords
Temasek
Pre-colonial Singapore
Southeast Asia history
Serai Tour Services
Singapore history
Singapore geology
Bukit Timah granite
Sunda Shelf
