In Singapore, a new trail and national monument explore Sentosa Island’s past as a pirate haven and military complex—well before it became a popular family getaway
But lurking behind that idyllic veneer are startling tales of torture, plunder, and deadly epidemics.
Now 10 million people a year visit this island, which is less than a mile from the mainland and connected by rail and cable car. Sentosa’s lethal reputation was burnished by pirates and an invisible enemy. In the first half of the 1800s, a mysterious epidemic killed a large percentage of the island’s population, which then included bands of buccaneers. Singapore’s waters brimmed with seafaring criminals long before it was settled by the British in 1819, says Stefan Eklöf Amirell, author ofHe says the Singapore Strait, which runs parallel to the nation’s south coast, had always been “excellent for piracy.
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