Fugueijiao Lighthouse

Fugueijiao Lighthouse
Fukwei Chiao
	Fugueijiao Lighthouse
	Taiwan
Location	Shimen District ; New Taipei City ; Taiwan
Coordinates	25°17′55″N121°32′12″E / 25.298536°N 121.536665°E Coordinates: 25°17′55″N121°32′12″E / 25.298536°N 121.536665°E
Year first constructed	1897 (first); 1954 (second)
Year first lit	1968 (current)
Construction	reinforced concrete tower
Tower shape	octagonal tower with balcony and lantern on a one-storey keeper’s house
Markings / pattern	white and black bands tower, white lantern, black lantern dome
Height	14.3 metres (47 ft)
Focal height	31.4 metres (103 ft)
Range	27 nautical miles (50 km; 31 mi) [1]
Characteristic	Fl (2) W 15s.
Fog signal	one 3s. blast every 30s.
Admiralty number	P4670
NGA number	13592
ARLHS number	TAI-008
Managing agent	Maritime and Port Bureau [2] [3]
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Last updated April 02, 2019

The Fugueijiao Lighthouse (Chinese :富貴角燈塔; pinyin :Fùguìjiǎo Dēngtǎ) is a lighthouse in Shimen District, New Taipei, Taiwan.^[4]^[5]

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases not mutually intelligible, language varieties, forming the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the ethnic Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

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A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

History

The lighthouse was built under the Japanese rule of Taiwan originally for the construction of submarine cable. After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to China in 1945, the lighthouse underwent renovation and its function was changed to aiding maritime navigation. The lighthouse was opened to the public for the very first time on 5 September 2015.^[6]^[7]

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According to a signboard near the lighthouse, the name Hoek (cape) was noted in the journal of a Dutch missionary during the Yongzheng era (1722–35) and was transliterated into Hokkien as hukui (富貴; Pe̍h-ōe-jī :hù-kùi).^[8]

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Pe̍h-ōe-jī is an orthography used to write variants of Southern Min Chinese, particularly Taiwanese Hokkien and Amoy Hokkien. Developed by Western missionaries working among the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia in the 19th century and refined by missionaries working in Xiamen and Tainan, it uses a modified Latin alphabet and some diacritics to represent the spoken language. After initial success in Fujian, POJ became most widespread in Taiwan and, in the mid-20th century, there were over 100,000 people literate in POJ. A large amount of printed material, religious and secular, has been produced in the script, including Taiwan's first newspaper, the Taiwan Church News.

Architecture

The lighthouse stands at a height of 14.3 meters.^[7]

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References

↑ Fuguejiao Light Lighthouse Explorer
↑ Fugueijiao The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 15 April 2016
↑ Fukwei Chiao Lighthouse Maritime and Port Bureau
↑ "NTPC Travel - Alibang Eco-Farm". ntpc.gov.tw.
↑ "Taiwan to open two more lighthouses to visitors". focustaiwan.tw.
↑ "12 lighthouses in Taiwan to open to public on June 30". wantchinatimes.com.
1 2 "Taiwan's century-old Fugueijiao lighthouse opened to public". wantchinatimes.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-29.
↑ Caltonhill, Mark (2012-05-04). "From Takow to Kaohsiung: 富貴角 Fuguei Cape, New Taipei City" . Retrieved 2015-02-19.

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[1] Fuguejiao Light Lighthouse Explorer

[2] Fugueijiao The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 15 April 2016

[3] Fukwei Chiao Lighthouse Maritime and Port Bureau

[4] "NTPC Travel - Alibang Eco-Farm". ntpc.gov.tw.

[5] "Taiwan to open two more lighthouses to visitors". focustaiwan.tw.

[6] "12 lighthouses in Taiwan to open to public on June 30". wantchinatimes.com.

[lighthouseopened-7] 1 2 "Taiwan's century-old Fugueijiao lighthouse opened to public". wantchinatimes.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-29.

[8] Caltonhill, Mark (2012-05-04). "From Takow to Kaohsiung: 富貴角 Fuguei Cape, New Taipei City" . Retrieved 2015-02-19.