Kranji Reservoir is a reservoir in the northern part of Singapore, near the Straits of Johor was a former freshwater river that flowed out into the sea that dammed at its mouth to form a freshwater reservoir. It can also be classified as an estuary. The dam has a road bridging the two banks, and now prevents the sea from coming in, and is home to a marsh. Generally, a reservoir is something that can hold matter or energy. ... Geography The Straits of Johor (also known as the Tebrau Strait, Johor Strait, Selat Johor, Selat Tebrau, and Tebrau Reach) is a narrow stretch of water that separates Johor state, Malaysia from Singapore. ... For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A river is a large natural waterway. ... Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits and services. ... Sunset at sea Wiktionary has a definition of: Sea Wiktionary has a definition of: maritime A sea is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. ... This article is about marsh, a type of wetland. ...
Kranji is named after a local tree, the kranji or keranji (Dialium indicum), which was common in the first half of the nineteenth century but has since rapidly dwindled.
Kranji served as a military camp before the 1939 Japanese invasion, and now is the home of the Kranji War Cemetery and Kranji War Memorial, for the 30,000 British war dead from Singapore, Malaya, Java and Sumatra.
There is also a reservoir in Kranji, known as KranjiReservoir, formed by the damming of the KranjiRiver.
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