Labrador Nature Reserve, Singapore

拉柏多炮台是英军在1843年建造的其中一座主要的海防工事。它同对面圣淘沙岛上的西乐索炮台一道，扼守着吉宝湾海港南面的入海口。

可惜的是，两座炮台都没有在二战期间发挥其应有的作用——因为日本侵略者当时是从北方经陆路进攻新加坡的。

Labrador Battery was one of the major seaward defences built by the British in 1843. Together with Fort Siloso on the opposite Sentosa Island, it guarded the entrance to the harbours in Keppel Bay from the southern sea.

Unfortunately, neither of the forts actually functioned as designed during WWII, since the Japanese invaders actually attacked Singapore from the north, by land.

拉柏多炮台背山面海，其背面是一座满布次生林的小山岗。在二战期间，从新加坡本岛到拉柏多炮台的陆路异常艰难。于是拉柏多码头就成为了炮台对外的唯一出入口。

新加坡南部沿海的填海计划，为拉柏多炮台找到了从陆路进出的通道。码头现在变成了悠闲的都市钓客们的天堂。

Labrador Battery was built facing the sea and backed by a small hill covered with secondary forest. The passage from the Singapore main island was so difficult that no easy transportation was available. Therefore, Labrador Pier became the only access to the battery during WWII.

Landing filling on the southern coastline of Singapore has created an alternative access to Labrador by land. The pier is now crowded with relaxed citizens trying fishing.