Queen's Tower is an old measurement tower located on Delft Island. It was built by the British as a trigonometric point and a light navigation point.
Queen's Tower, Delft Island (Sri Lanka) Q ueen's Tower (Sinhala: ඩෙල්ෆ් රැජිණ කුළුණ; Tamil: இராணியின் கோபுரம்) is an old colonial-era measurement tower located on the southeastern coast of the island of Delft (Tamil: Neduntheevu), Sri Lanka. Several towers similar to this have been recorded across the country, especially in the northern peninsula (Wijebandara, 2014). History The British erected the tower (British Ceylon: 1815-1948) as a trigonometric point and a light navigation point for diurnally operated ships (Dias et al., 2016). Recorded evidence has confirmed that they used the tower to measure the land by setting up an instrument on the top of the tower (Dias et al., 2016). However, an incorrect opinion suggests that this tower had been used as a lighthouse and therefore, it is presently popular among locals as such a tower (Dias et al., 2016; Wijebandara, 2014). According to that belief, the smoke released by a fire set at the bottom of the tower creates a vacuum forcing the air to come out from the opening of the w…
