Fortress
Fort Du Bus
Netherlands
Fort Du Bus was a Dutch administrative and trading post established in 1828 on Triton Bay on the southwest coast of New Guinea, in the current Indonesian regency of Kaimana, West Papua. Intended to counter British encroachment, it was the first European settlement in the region; it was abandoned in 1835, due to the unhealthy climate and attacks by natives. A monument currently stands on the original site of Fort du Bus.
Text adapted from “Fort Du Bus” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Du Bus ranks #3,215 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #45 of the 76 mapped in Netherlands. See how Netherlands compares in the castle statistics.
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