Located off the North Eastern end of Singapore, it has an area of 1020 hectares, in a rough sharp of a boomberang. Its core geological make up is granite over five smaller islands, interspersed by low lying mangroves and the tidal rivers. The tidal rivers were bunded for prawn breediing thereby connected all those smaller islands into a single island known as Pulau Ubin. At the beginning of 2002, the government surprisingly conceded to appeals and granted a conditional extension for Pulau Ubin to remain in its current state for at least the next 10 years, until there is a need for its redevelopment . The government also played its part in the conservation and protection of Chek Jawa's coastal and its wetland, in creating a enviornmental and visitors friendly santuary with an observation tower, boardwalks and viewing jetties, reaching to the coast and the lands between, where nipah plams, mangroves trees and other coastal vegatation thrives.