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About Punggol

Punggol, also written Ponggol, is a township in northeastern Singapore. A new township, the Punggol New Town, is taken shape here. The township borders Sengkang located to the south. Among the institutions in Punggol include Greendale Secondary School, Central Christian Church, Edgefield Primary School and Mee Toh School.

Punggol got its name from a Malay word, punggal, which means "to hurt stick at the branches of fruit trees to bring the fruits down to ground", or simply, "to break a twig". It used to be a very rural part of Singapore. The area was traditionally farmland. Chinese villagers live here are involved in farming, rearing poultry, pigs and fish farming. The last pig farm in Punggol closed in 1990. The land has since been developed into high rise Housing Development Board flats. The northern tip, called Punggol Point or Tanjong Punggol, was notorious because it was the site the Japanese massacred 400 Chinese civilians during the Second World War, in what was to be known as the Punggol Beach Massacre. The site is today marked as a National Heritage Site.

Today, the coastline of Punggol is well known among Singaporeans for its seafood restaurants as well as water sports such as water skiing, skin diving and boating.

Getting there

The nearest MRT station is Punggol MRT Station (NE17). The township is also served by the Punggol LRT Line, a 10.3 km line with 15 stations.

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Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol
Author: Sengkang (GFDL)

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