Singapore in the Ice Age: Walking...

Singapore in the Ice Age: Walking to Sumatra

The Temasek Timeline - Singapore's Story Before Singapore by Serai Tour Services
S1 · E2
Oct 1, 2026
14:13

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Twenty thousand years ago, you could set out from where Singapore now stands and walk to Sumatra without wetting your feet.

Beneath today's busy straits lies a vanished continent. What did it look like? Who crossed it? And how quickly did the sea take it back?

Season 1: Before the Lion.

Sources:

Bird, Taylor & Hunt, "Palaeoenvironments of Insular Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period," Quaternary Science Reviews 24 (2005)

Peter Bellwood, Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago (1997)

From Serai Tour Services. seraitour.com/temasek-timeline

Keywords

Southeast Asia history
Serai Tour Services
Singapore history
Sundaland
Ice Age Singapore
sea level
Straits of Malacca
Prehistoric Southeast Asia
deep time

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Island
Singapore

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Island
Singapore