Labrador Park MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle line, located within

Bukit Merah Bukit Merah, also known as Redhill, is a planning area and new town situated in the southernmost part of the Central Region of Singapore. the planning area borders Tanglin to the north, Queenstown to the west and the Downtown Core, Outram an ...

planning area,

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. Built underneath Telok Blangah Road near the junctions of Alexandra Road and Labrador Villa Road, this station was named after the nearby

Labrador Nature Reserve Labrador Nature Reserve ( Chinese: 拉柏多自然保护区, Malay: Kawasan Simpanan Alam Semulajadi Labrador), also known locally as Labrador Park (拉柏多公园, Taman Labrador), is located in the southern part of mainland Singapore. It is ho ...

. It is the nearest MRT station to the

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and Gillman Barracks, the latter of which is now home to numerous art galleries.

Etymology

This station is named after Labrador Park, a historical site which held former fortifications and

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s built by the

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forces in Singapore before

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. Another name is also Tanjong Berlayer. It is the name given to the craggy granite outcrop that formerly stood in the gateway of

Keppel Harbour Keppel Harbour (; ms, Pelabuhan Keppel), also called the Keppel Channel and formerly New Harbour, is a stretch of water in Singapore between the mainland and the southern islands of Pulau Brani and Sentosa (formerly Pulau Blakang Mati). Its natur ...

in Singapore. The rocky outcrop served as navigational aids to ancient mariners sailing through the swift waters of the narrow channel between them, but was subsequently destroyed by the British in 1848 to widen the channel for larger vessels to sail through. In 2005, a symbolic replica was erected by the Singapore government near its original site to mark the role in the history. It was also called ''Batu Berlayar'' in Malay, ''Dragon's Teeth Gate'' in English and ''Long Ya Men'' in Chinese.

Art in Transit

The artwork featured in this station under the Art in Transit programme is ''Without Which/Would Have Been/Impossible'' by Heman Chong. The art piece, located on the side of the lift shaft in the station, consists of the title of the piece and several coloured circles of different sizes arranged in a regular fashion. According to the artist, the motif came from a "microscopic view of a single rock" found at Labrador Park, highlighting the park's distinctive identity as the last surviving rocky sea cliff in Singapore.

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* * Bukit Merah Railway stations opened in 2011 2011 establishments in Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations {{Singapore-MRT-stub