A port between hills
Keelung's harbour is a deep bay with the city packed into the few flat streets behind it. The temple night market is the old core's kitchen.
Keelung.
Keelung is the port at Taiwan's northern tip, built around a deep natural harbour with hills behind it. Spanish, Dutch, Qing and Japanese interests all used the bay, and the city grew as the island's main gateway for shipping. Rain is frequent, the streets are narrow, and the old commercial core still clusters around the Miaokou night market and the harbour quay.
Keelung
The island across the bridge
Heping Island is a short bridge from Keelung, with a wave-cut platform of mushroom rocks and the site of a seventeenth-century Spanish fort.
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The harbour building of Keelung stands on the old quay.Ralff Nestor Nacor / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
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Rock pools run along the shore of Heping Island.lienyuan lee / CC BY 3.0 · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
