An octagonal red-and-white striped lighthouse built on the Qingshui coast in 1967, the only horizontally-striped lighthouse in Taiwan. It also guided US Navy tankers offshore during the Vietnam War, which fed fuel through a buried pipeline inland to the Dayang Oil Depot. The light was decommissioned in 1982 after its apparatus was transferred to a new tower at the Port of Taichung; the grounds reopened as a public park in 2014 and the tower was registered as a historic building in 2018.
Map
Heritage Status
- Historic Building (歷史建築)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Themes
- US-ROC Alliance Period (中美共同時期)
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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.