- Anyer
Anyer is a town in
West Java ,Indonesia , fifteen kilometres south of Merak. It is home of a forty metre lighthouse built by Queen Wilhelmina ofHolland in 1885 as a memorial for the townspeople killed by the eruption ofKrakatau , which destroyed the town.cite book | last = Winchester | first = Simon | title = Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 | publisher = HarperCollins | year = 2003 | id = ISBN 0-06-621285-5 ] The originallighthouse was destroyed by atsunami created by theeruption of Krakatua. It is thought that a large coral rock was picked up by the 30m wave, impacting the lighthouse causing its collapse. After the wave had subsided the lighthouse keeper, whose wife and child were killed, patrolled the beach with a lantern warning shipping of the hazards. The foundations of the original lighthouse can still be seen.It is also the starting point of the
Great Post Road , built by the Dutch in the nineteenth century, which ran 1,000 kilometres to the eastern tip of Java. Off the coast of Anyer is the island Pulau Sangeang, an unihabited island with vast areas of untouched jungle. The area is also known for coral formations swarming with tropical fish.External links
Lighthouses of Indonesia [http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/idn.htm]
References
*cite book
last =Witton | first =Patrick | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Indonesia | publisher =Lonely Planet | date =2003 | location =Melbourne | pages =page 166 | id = ISBN1-74059-154-2
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