Fort Serapong Archaeological Project

Fort Serapong is located atop Bukit Serapong, the highest point on Sentosa, and offers spectacular views of the city skyline.  It is a self-supporting WWII defence post, and comprises a huge network of batteries, tunnels, underground rooms, lookout posts, supporting buildings and even its own water collection system.

In April 2006, a team of archaeologists from the National University of Singapore embarked on an excavation study to learn more about the fort. Research has yielded significant aerial photographs from the post war period showing the remaining installations and gun positions, maps and documents detailing military regiment on the island.

Site clearance work also revealed the positions of a series of 6-inch guns, a concrete bunker and an ancillary structure, comprising three rooms and an attached toilet, buried beneath the rubble and earth. Further up the hill, the battery command post was identified and uncovered. A suspected observation post overlooking the eastern approach to Keppel Harbour was also identified.

Fort Siloso

Fort Siloso is a coastal artillery battery and one of twelve that made up ‘Fortress Singapore’ prior to World War II.

The fort is also Singapore’s only fully-restored fort.  Remains of the other batteries have been discovered over the years but none are as well-preserved as Fort Siloso.  Today, more than 245 photographs, documents and film clips of World War II are on display at Fort Siloso.  Visitors to the fort will also be able to explore its 17th century guns and cannons, and the old war tunnels.