Pulau Seletar

{{Short description|Island in Singapore}}

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Pulau Seletar (or Seletar Island) is an island in Singapore waters, in the Straits of Johor off the northern coast.{{Cite book|title = A Gazetteer of the Singapore Locality Names of the Collections of the Herbarium, Singapore Botanic Gardens.|last1 = Chen|first1 = Junhao|publisher = Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore|year = 2014|isbn = 978-981-07-2589-1|location = Singapore|pages = 15|last2 = Chong|first2 = Kwek Yan|first3 = Alex T. K.|last3 = Yee|last4 = Tan|first4 = Hugh T.W.|url = https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/pdf/PUBLICATION/LKCNH%20Museum%20Books/LKCNHM%20Books/gazetteer_locality_names.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170128025000/https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/pdf/PUBLICATION/LKCNH%20Museum%20Books/LKCNHM%20Books/gazetteer_locality_names.pdf|archive-date = 2017-01-28}} It has an area of 38.5 hectares.{{Cite web|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_150_2005-01-20.html|title=Islands of Singapore|website=Singapore Infopedia|publisher=National Library Board, Singapore|access-date=8 March 2016}} It is in a bay into which several streams flow, including the waters of mainland Singapore's only hot spring.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L5kLBHwUwfEC|title=Landscape Planning in Singapore|last=Waller|first=Edmund|date=2001|publisher=NUS Press|isbn=9789971692384|page=89|language=en}}{{Cite book |last=United States Hydrographic Office |author-link=United States Hydrographic Office |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-XyWbb8k28IC&q=Seletar |title=Publications ... |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1962 |volume=70, 162 |pages=230 |language=en}}

Pulau Seletar is in the planning area of Simpang, in which it forms a single subzone of its own.{{Cite web|url=https://keylocation.sg/singapore/planning-areas/simpang|title=Singapore's Simpang Planning Area|website=Key Location}}

The island is home to mangrove trees, the tallest of which reach a height of 80 feet.

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