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Saint John's Island is one of the Southern Islands of Singapore. Measuring some 40 hectares, it is located to the southwest of Sentosa Island, in a cluster that includes Kusu Island and Lazarus Island. The Malay name for St. John's Island is Pulau Sakijang Bendera.
View St. John's Island in a larger map Saint John's Island was Stamford Raffles anchorage before coming ashore to meet the Malay chieftain in 1819. In the 19th century, it was used as a quarantine station newly arrived immigrants, to check the spread of cholera. It was to Singapore what Pulau Jerejak was to Penang. Later on, from 1901, lepers and sufferers of beri-beri were also quarantined there. Similarly from the 1930's pilgrims returning from Mecca were quarantined there before being allowed home.
Since the mid 1970's St. John's Island has been redeveloped for tourism and recreation. The sea surrounding it has a healthy reef with different types of marine life. Visitors to St. John's Island to walk across to Lazarus Island on a causeway.
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