Established in 1906, this octagonal brick naval lookout tower at the southern tip of Hengchun served as a wireless station for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War to track Russian fleet movements off Taiwan’s east coast. It was transferred to the Governor-General’s Communications Bureau in 1924 and reopened as the Eluanbi Radiotelegraph Station in December 1925. It handled ship communications for the southwest coast and served as a backup link anytime the cross-strait undersea cable failed, closing in April 1937 when operations consolidated at Tainan Radiotelegraph Station (臺南無線電信局) in Tainan. The structure was demolished sometime after the war.
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- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Telecommunication History in Taiwan (台灣通訊歷史)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.