Batu Ferringhi Beach
Sandy resort coast named for the foreign traders who once came ashore on its rocky shoreline.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Batu Ferringhi Beach in Penang traces English privateer James Lancaster, who anchored off this coast in 1592 to ambush passing trading ships between raids. It follows how the Malay name, meaning the foreigners' rocks, grew from his uninvited landing, and how a quiet fishing coast transformed into Penang's busiest resort strip once hotels began rising along the sand in the 1970s.
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