Place · colonial seafront boulevard · India
Marine Drive, Mumbai
Also known as Marine Drive, Queen's Necklace, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road
The three-kilometre curved seafront boulevard along Back Bay from Nariman Point to Chowpatty, laid out as a reclaimed land project between 1915 and 1940 and flanked by what is now the subcontinent's largest ensemble of Art Deco apartment buildings — about forty structures listed as part of the UNESCO 2018 Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai inscription. The night-time arc of its sodium streetlights has been called the Queen's Necklace since the 1930s. Marine Drive is Mumbai's defining public space, functioning as esplanade, running route and sunset gathering point.
- Date
- 1915–1940
- Function
- Water & infrastructure
- Patron dynasty
- British Raj · Indian Union
- Tradition
- Standard reference; INTACH, ASI and municipal records; institutional histories.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 18.943, 72.824
Connections (1)
- Site withinMumbai
Marine Drive runs along Back Bay from Nariman Point to Chowpatty in central Mumbai, within the city's main southern peninsula. The three-kilometre reclaimed-land boulevard and the Art Deco apartment ensemble lining its east side are the Mumbai Victorian Gothic and Art Deco UNESCO ensemble's second half, and Marine Drive defines the city's seafront public space.