Back غورني درايف (جورج تاون) Arabic گرنی درایو Persian Persiaran Gurney Malay கெர்னி டிரைவ் Tamil 新關仔角 Chinese
5°26′11.63″N 100°18′45.2″E / 5.4365639°N 100.312556°E
| Malay: Persiaran Gurney Chinese: 新关仔角 / 新關仔角 Tamil: கர்னி டிரைவ் | |
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| Maintained by | Penang Island City Council |
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| Location | George Town |
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| Inauguration | 1934 |
PERSIARAN GURNEY Gurney Drive10250 P. PINANG | |
Gurney Drive is a popular seafront promenade within the city of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. The road is also famous for the street cuisine at the seafront's hawker centre and has been listed as one of the 25 best streets worldwide to visit by the Australian travel magazine, The Traveler.[1][2] In addition, Gurney Drive has become part of George Town's Central Business District due to the mushrooming of commercial properties and shopping malls.[3]
Previously known as the New Coast Road, it was completed in 1936 along what was then known as the North Beach and renamed in 1952 after Sir Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner in Malaya (1950–1951), who was assassinated by the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party during the Malayan Emergency.[4]
Over the years, the beaches along Gurney Drive have largely been lost to coastal erosion. A land reclamation project at Seri Tanjong Pinang has reversed the erosion, leading to the accretion of silt and mud off Gurney Drive. Mangrove saplings have sprouted in the mud, which is now frequented by egrets and other birds as well as mudskippers.
As of 2023[update], the shoreline off Gurney Drive is being reclaimed for the purpose of creating a public recreational park named Gurney Bay.[5]
- ^ "Gurney Drive listed among best streets to visit around the world". www.thesundaily.my. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
- ^ Kim, Soo (2017-03-20). "The 25 streets around the world every traveller needs to visit". Traveller. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
- ^ "Penang DAP rep: Put all projects in Gurney Drive on hold". 2015-05-22. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
- ^ "The story of Penang's Gurney Drive". 2007-07-24.
- ^ "Penang's Gurney Drive bund turns brown waters jade green". AsiaOne. Archived from the original on November 11, 2016. Retrieved 2016-11-27.