Melalap

Melalap
	Melalap
	Melalap
Coordinates	5 ° 16 ' N , 116 ° 0' E Coordinates: 5 ° 16 ' N , 116 ° 0' E
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
ISO 3166-2	MY-12
	Catholic Church of Melalap

Former terminus of the North Borneo Railway

State School in Melalap (Sekolah Kebangsaan)

Melalap is a village in the Malaysian state of Sabah and belongs to the Tenom District in the Interior Division . In the colonial times Melalap was known for the local natural rubber plantation Melalap Rubber Estate .

geography

Melalap is located on the Sungai Melalap , a right tributary of the Sungai Pegalan .

history

Due to the rubber boom that began in North Borneo at the beginning of the 20th century, a large plantation, the Melalap Rubber Estate , was opened in Melalap . This was done on the condition that the North Borneo Chartered Company provided the infrastructural framework for the removal of the raw rubber. Directly after the connection of Tenom to the North Borneo Railway , the engineer Arthur J. West extended the rail line by 16 km to Melalap in 1906 .

The planting of rubber trees in the Melalap area was switched to oil palms due to the sustained high profit margins .

Infrastructure

The village is on the SA3 federal road from Tenom to Keningau. The Melalap-Tenom section of the Sabah State Railway was given up in 1970.

Community facilities

Melalap has a school, a meeting hall and a Catholic church.

literature

KG Tregonning: A History Of Modern Sabah (North Borneo 1881–1963) , 2nd edition, University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1965, reprint 1967
Owen Rutter: British North Borneo - An Account of its History, Ressources and Native Tribes , Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1922

Web links

Commons : Melalap - collection of images