BEKAL TUNNEL, Bekel Fort

(Hosdurg - IN)
12.400000,75.050000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A secret tunnel in Bekal Fort (note 1) leads from the inner section to the sea (LONELY PLANET, Kerala 2000: 228). According to MASCARENHAS, Antonio (note 2), Bekal Fort is a hill top heritage site (page 90) which features not only bare slopes but also laterite and pink granite boulders at the base of cliff (page 89 table 1) while the seaside wall of Bekal fort … [exposes apparently] relatively stable granite bedrock (plate 50).A secret tunnel in Bekal Fort (note 1) leads from the inner section to the sea (LONELY PLANET, Kerala 2000: 228). According to MASCARENHAS, Antonio (note 2), Bekal Fort is a hill top heritage site (page 90) which features not only bare slopes but also laterite and pink granite boulders at the base of cliff (page 89 table 1) while the seaside wall of Bekal fort … [exposes apparently] relatively stable granite bedrock (plate 50).

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History

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