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5 unusual facts about George Town


George Town, Chennai

The name of this area 'Black Town' was renamed as George Town in 1911 in honor of King George V when he was crowned as the Emperor of India.

George Windsor Earl

Earl died on a sea journey to England in 1865, and is buried at the Old Protestant Cemetery, George Town, Penang, in present-day Malaysia.

Grand Cayman

Grand Cayman Island includes five of the six districts of the Cayman Islands: Bodden Town, East End, George Town, North Side, and West Bay.

K. Sriramulu Naidu

He was a philanthropist who donated Kandappa Chetty Street, George Town, to the Tirumula Charities and hundreds of acres of land to the government on which the Chennai International Airport is currently situated.

Xavier Doherty

He started playing cricket in his home town for the George Town Cricket Club where he debut in the NTCA 1st grade at the age of 12.


Caymanian general election, 2013

Each of the six districts forms a constituency, with six members elected in George Town, four each in West Bay and Bodden Town, two in Cayman Brac and Little Cayman and one in North Side and East End.

Ghat

For example, in George Town, Penang in Malaysia, the label "Ghaut" is used to identify the extensions of those streets which formerly ended in ghats before reclamation of the quayside (e.g., Church St Ghaut - in Malay Gat Lebuh Gereja - is the name of the extension of Church St beyond where the street used to descend to the water via a ghat).

Penang International Airport

Passengers arriving or departing from the north will have a view of George Town, Butterworth and the Penang Bridge.

Trolleybuses in George Town, Penang

The George Town trolleybus system was part of the public transport network in George Town, on the island of Penang (part of Malaysia since 1963), for more than 35 years in the mid-20th century.

Wall Tax Road, Chennai

The attacks by Hyder Ali in 1767 catalysed the process, which resulted in the building of a protective wall around the new Black Town, including the neighbourhoods such as Muthialpettah and Peddunaickenpettah (parts of the present-day George Town), located at the northern and western sides of the Fort.


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John Pascoe Fawkner

On board the Enterprize as it departed George Town, were Captain John Lancey, Master Mariner (Fawkner’s representative); George Evans, builder; William Jackson and Robert Marr, carpenters; Evan Evans, servant to George Evans; and Fawkner’s servants, Charles Wyse, ploughman, Thomas Morgan, general servant, James Gilbert, blacksmith and his pregnant wife, Mary, under Captain Peter Hunter.

Municipal Council of Penang Island

However, as George Town no longer exists as a legal entity, it appears that George Town's city status has gone the way of the city of Rochester-upon-Medway in England.

William Henry Harvey

Ronald Campbell Gunn (1808–1881) Harvey specimens in the Ulster Museum are from George Town.