Lazarus Island (Pulau Sekijang Pelepah / Pulau Seking)

Lazarus Island, historically called Pulau Sekijang Pelepah (also seen in sources as Pulau Seking or Pulau Sekijang), is one of Singapore's Southern Islands located south of the main island in the Straits of Singapore. It is connected to neighbouring St. John's Island by a causeway; St. John's is served by ferry, from which visitors may reach Lazarus. The island is small and currently treated as part of the uninhabited/recreational southern-islands cluster rather than a permanently inhabited settlement. Historically the island hosted a kampung community and figures in oral-history accounts and islander heritage narratives. Sources describe Pulau Seking as the location of one of the last southern-island village communities; descendants and community events (for example participants identified as from Pulau Sekijang Pelepah) keep the island's cultural memory alive. Accounts indicate islanders were relocated in the late 20th century and the island no longer supports a permanent village population. The island appears in heritage-focused reporting and island-activity guides and is included in southern-islands administrative and visitor contexts. The provided research contains no reports of paranormal phenomena, named spirits, or haunting traditions associated with Lazarus Island. Discussion in the sources centers on geography, historical community presence, cultural revival and remembrance, and access/tourism. Nearby islands in the southern cluster have seen varied administrative or land-use changes (reclamation, military designation, etc.) in regional accounts, but those changes are referenced as context rather than site-specific alterations to Lazarus Island itself.