S2-E39 - Kaohsiung to Kenting Road Trip (1875)

The southern peninsula of Taiwan was a "ship graveyard" for a
very long time as unseen rocks and reefs gashed holes in the
sides of vessels and left them stranded, or on the seafloor. The
Western powers and Qing authorities both agreed that a lighthouse
at the far southern end of Taiwan would be a good idea, and so it
fell upon English engineer Michael Beazeley and fellow employees
of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service to set off
from Takao (Kaohsiung) overland into "savage" territory to find
and buy a piece of land for a lighthouse. Here's the illuminating
origin story of the famous Eluanbi Lighthouse at Kenting.