Abstract
Fort Zeelandia is the first brick fort in Taiwan built by Dutch in the early 17th century. This fortress represents not only the former capital of economy, politics and military of Taiwan at that time, but also poses a significant milestone representing the initiating of recording Taiwan to the world history. In spite of the great importance of Fort Zeelandia to the Taiwanese and world history, only a few remaining walls are still visible on the ground. The lack of researches causes essential problems to define its earlier boundaries, realize the use of the land, and conserve the historic remaining walls. This paper presents a series of studies on the sand dune beneath the fortress. The results provide a reference to realize local geotechnical properties and the possible mechanism to cause the collapse of the fortress.
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