Nobody knows for sure where the name "Changi" came from. Some believe it was derived from the Chengai, a tall tree that used to grow in the area. Changi was also known by other names: Tanjong Rusa (Malay for "cape of the deer"), and Franklin Point (after Captain Franklin, one of the early surveyors in Singapore during the 1820s to.
Diver explorers and Parks Canada researchers have recently uncovered new artifacts among the Erebus and Terror shipwrecks of the famed Franklin Expedition led by Sir John Franklin,