Raffles' Landing Site

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Raffles' Landing Site is the place where tradition holds that Sir Stamford Raffles first landed in Singapore on 28 January 1819, beginning a ten-day visit during which he and Major William Farquhar concluded a treaty with Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sultan Hussein Shah. The site is on the north bank of the Singapore River at Boat Quay in the Civic District. It is marked by a white polymarble statue of Raffles unveiled in 1972, made from plaster casts of the original 1887 bronze figure that now stands opposite the Victoria Concert Hall.