Gurney Drive

Gurney Drive is a well known seafront promenade inside George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The street is additionally well known for the road cooking at the seafront's seller focus and has been recorded as one of the 25 best lanes worldwide to visit by the Australian travel magazine, The Gurney Drive has progressed toward becoming piece of George Town's second Central Business District because of the mushrooming of high rises and shopping centers. Beforehand known as the New Coast Road, it was finished in 1936 along what was then known as the North Beach, and renamed in 1952 after Sir Henry Gurney, British High

Commissioner in Malaya, who was killed by the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party amid the Malayan Emergency. Throughout the years, the shorelines along Gurney Drive have to a great extent been lost to waterfront disintegration. All the more as of late, a land recovery venture at close-by Tanjung Tokong has turned around the disintegration, prompting the gradual addition of residue and mud off Gurney Drive. Mangrove saplings have grown in the mud, or, in other words by egrets and different winged creatures and also mudskippers. As of 2016, the shoreline off Gurney Drive is being recovered to create an open recreational stop named Gurney Wharf.