This sight is located in Pulau Pangkor in Perak, Malaysia. To prepare for a trip there, read the Pangkor Island Travel Guide for useful information. For more background about Perak, read the Perak Travel Guide. If you are looking for budget accommodation, usae the Budget Accommodation Guide from AsiaExplorers.
Dutch Fort is a fort built on Pangkor Island in 1670. It is about 3km from the Pangkor village. I explored it with another AsiaExplorers member, and documented it for AsiaExplorers. The Dutch built this fort in their attempt to monopolise the tin trade. It was to be used for storage and to protect their tin interest. But despite having the fort in place, tin smuggling out of Perak continued. Also, the Dutch had to face with constant attacks on the fort from the unhappy local leaders. An attack by the Malays in 1690 destroyed the fort.
The Dutch then rebuilt it in 1743 and placed 60 soldiers to guard it. But this lasted for only 5 years before the Dutch decided to abandon the fort all together.
Today, the Museum Department has reconstructed the fort on its original foundations. Having said that, I am not sure how true to the original is this reconstruction. What you can see is like a partially completed house standing at the end of a terraced garden.
The Dutch Fort in Dutch Fort, Pangkor has since been restored.
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