Swan Lake (Singapore)

Swan Lake
Location Singapore Botanic Gardens
Coordinates 1°18′28″N 103°48′57″E / 1.307896°N 103.8159205°E / 1.307896; 103.8159205Coordinates: 1°18′28″N 103°48′57″E / 1.307896°N 103.8159205°E / 1.307896; 103.8159205
Type artificial lake
Basin countries Singapore
Surface area 15,000 m2 (160,000 sq ft)

Swan Lake is an artificial lake located at the Singapore Botanic Gardens in Singapore.

The lake is located at the Tyersall Avenue entrance to the gardens within the Tanglin Core, and is one of the most well-known locations in the garden's grounds. As the name suggests, the lake's name was inspired by swans populating it. The pair of mute swans was imported from Amsterdam.

Added to the gardens in 1866, the lake covers an area of about 15,000 m² (1.5ha). The lake was closed for upgrading in 2003, and it was completed in April 2005 as part of the gardens' Tanglin Core Redevelopment.

Swan Lake (Singapore)

The Swan Lake Gazebo is a Victorian cast-iron garden shelter. It was built in the 1850s and stood for many years in the grounds of Old Admiralty House in Grange Road. In 1969 it was dismantled and re-erected in the Gardens at the entrance to the Rain Forest. It was moved to a new site overlooking Swan Lake in 2001.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ "Swan Lake, Singapore". Wikimedia commons. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
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