Temasek was the early recorded name of a settlement on the site of today's Singapore, although the island itself wasn't specifically defined. A 3rd-century Chinese reference to
Pú Luó Zhōng () corresponds to the local name
Pulau Ujong (
Malay for "Island at the End"). Travellers and merchants from around Asia arriving at the
Singapore Strait to the South China Sea would have to pass by the island, hence the name
Pulau Ujong. Similarly,
Orang Laut tribes called Singapore by this name.
Ujong Tanah ( "Land at the Furthest") or its variants were also used in European sources as a name for Singapore. The
Kristang name for the island,
Pedra Draku ( "Rock of Dragons" or "Dragonsrock"), comes from the
Dragon's Tail Peninsula found in older maps of the world, identified as the former sub-continent of
Sundaland that the island of Singapore now sits on top of. The name
Pedra Draku thus also has supposed parallels with the
Dragon's Teeth Gate or Long Ya Men () that once stood at the front of
Keppel Harbour, and also with the Malay name
Pulau Ujong, identifying Singapore as the island at the end of the Dragon's Tail Peninsula. ==Legend==