Site #4: Raffles' Landing Site

The present statue located at Raffles' Landing Site is Singapore's second of Sir Stamford Raffles.The first, cast in bronze by British scultor-poet Thomas Woolner in 1887, Queen Victorian's Golden Jubilee Year.It was unveiled originally on the padang on 27 June 1887 by the governor, Sir Federick Weld
In 1919,Sigapore's centenary celebrations, this statue was moved to a site in front of the Victoria Theatre and the concert hall.During the Japanese occupationof Singapore from, 1942 to 1945, was almost melted down for its bronze.After the surrender of the Japanese in 1945, the statue was placed in the museum but was reinstated in its present location in 1946.
The figure is thought to be the site where Sir Stamford Raffles landed on 29 January 1819. He was the founder of Singapore.