water today. Raffles' landing While the Raffles' Landing Site on the northern bank of the Singapore River is generally thought to be the original landing spot of Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819, other sources point to the Kallang Basin area as the likely location. According to the Cho Clan Archives, Raffles ordered his ship's carpenter, Chow Ah Chi, to lead the way in posting the British East India Company flag on mainland Singapore and he supposedly landed at the mouth of the Rochor River in Kallang. Raffles, following the route taken by Chow, also arrived at the Kallang Basin in what is today's Kallang Riverside Park. This was possible because the Kallang Basin was directly connected to the open sea at the time of Raffles' founding of modern Singapore. References Kallang Basins Geography of Singapore