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Search results: 6 item(s) for: "494 Highway Transportation"     
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1. [wa0027] [Suao-Hualian Highway] [wa0027] [Suao-Hualian Highway]480 Travel and Transportation; 130 Geography; 494 Highway transportation; 493 Vehicles; 133 Topography and GeologyHighway cut into the side of sheer cliff face of Taiwan's east coast. First built in Qing period as part of ""open the mountains, tame the savages"" campaign in the 1870s, the Suao-Hualian Highway fell into disuse and disrepair by the 1890s. The entire length of the highway was restored in under orders from Governor General Sakuma in 1916, following Japan's defeat of the Taroko Gorge tribes. This work was completed in 1925; a second widening period was competed in 1931 (Matsumoto 1996, p. 153; Nihon chiri taikei 1930 p. 184-85).
2. [wa0030] [Suao-Hualian Highway] [wa0030] [Suao-Hualian Highway]480 Travel and Transportation; 130 Geography; 494 Highway transportation; 133 Topography and GeologySheer cliff descending to ocean; the East Coast Highway is visible. Caption in government pamphlet: ""Motor Highway, over 70 miles, along the cliffy East Coast between Suao and Karenko [Hualiangong]"" (Romantic Taiwan 1939, p. 21).
3. [wa0104] [Tunnel on the Suao-Hualian Highway] [wa0104] [Tunnel on the Suao-Hualian Highway]130 Geography; 494 Highway Transportation; 493 Vehicles; 133 Topography and Geology; 490 Land TransportOn the front of postcard of same location (different angle), from Academia Sinica Image Collection (TW02009100),""石硿子の大理石隧道 Tunnel of Marble at Sekikushi (Marine Road at the East Formosa). From back of same card,""岩に窓を穿ち人間業とは思へぬ風致があります 自動車は東海運輸株式會社のバスです.""
4. [wa0105] [Another view of Suao-Hualian Highway] [wa0105] [Another view of Suao-Hualian Highway]130 Geography; 494 Highway Transportation; 493 Vehicles; 133 Topography and Geology; 490 Land TransportClose-up of concrete guardrails along the eastern coastal highway.
5. [wa0108] [Qingshui (Shimizu) Cliffs] [wa0108] [Qingshui (Shimizu) Cliffs]130 Geography; 494 Highway Transportation; 493 Vehicles; 133 Topography and Geology; 490 Land TransportThe Qingshui or Shimizu Cliff 清水の断崖. ""This two-kilometer-long cliff [is located] between Zongde 宗德 and Heping 和平 along the Suao-Hualian Highway...Its rock formation is gneiss and marble, constituting a vertical cliff....This section of Qingshui is drilled in the middle of the cliff. The engineering was extraordinarily tough"" (Liu 1997, p. 234-5).
6. [wa0141] [Sheer cliff on the Suao-Hualian Highway] [wa0141] [Sheer cliff on the Suao-Hualian Highway]480 Travel and Transportation; 130 Geography; 133 Topography and Geology; 494 Highway TransportationTranslated Japanese caption: ""The Suao-Hualian Highway was excavated from a sheer marble bluff in the Shimizu mountains, which shoot straight up to over 8080 feet. Its feet appear as if washed by the violent crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean. This marvelous and unique highway leaves men dumbstruck; beyond proclaiming its grandeur, there are no words to describe it.""
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