Gurney Drive, George Town, Drone Footage 2024

Gurney Drive is a popular seafront promenade within the city of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang.

The road is also famous for the street cuisine at the seafront's hawker centre and has been listed as one of the 25 best streets worldwide to visit by the Australian travel magazine The Traveler.

In addition, Gurney Drive has become part of George Town's Central Business District due to the mushrooming of commercial properties and shopping malls.

Over the years, the beaches along Gurney Drive have largely been lost to coastal erosion. A land reclamation project at Seri Tanjong Pinang has reversed the erosion, leading to the accretion of silt and mud off Gurney Drive.

Mangrove saplings have sprouted in the mud, which is now frequented by egrets and other birds as well as mudskippers.

As of 2023, the shoreline off Gurney Drive is being reclaimed for the purpose of creating a public recreational park named Gurney Bay.

Gurney Drive was initially named as New Coast Road.

It was then renamed Gurney Drive in honour of Sir Henry Gurney, the British High Commissioner in Malaya who had been assassinated by communist guerrillas in Pahang in 1951.