Jesselton

/ ˈdʒɛsəltən /

noun

1. the former name of Kota Kinabalu

Example Sentences

Across the Jesselton Point harbor I could just make out a ramshackle village.

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Old Jesselton was largely leveled by subsequent Allied bombing.

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The British renamed the place Jesselton after Sir Charles Jessel, the vice chairman of the British North Borneo Company, and the local economy boomed after the Trans-Borneo Railway was built in the early 20th century, allowing rubber to be transported efficiently from the interior to the coast.

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The remainder which call for separate mention are Lahat Datu on Darvel Bay on the east coast; Kudat on Marudu Bay and Jesselton on Gaya Bay on the west coast.

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A railway of indifferent construction runs along the west coast from Jesselton to Weston on Brunei Bay, with a branch along the banks of the Padas to Tenom above the rapids.

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