Southern Sulawesi
Makassar Metropolitan Area
Makassar

Fort Rotterdam

Fort Rotterdam is a 17th-century fort in on the island of in . It is a Dutch fort that was built on top of an existing fort of the Gowa Kingdom.
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  • Type: Battlefield
  • Description: Dutch fort built in Makassar on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia during the 1670s
  • Also known as: “Benteng Port Roterdam”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include La Galigo Museum and Makassar Port.

Museum
Photo: Gunarta, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Transport stop
Photo: RianHS, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Port of Makassar, also known as Port of Soekarno-Hatta, is a seaport in Makassar, Indonesia. It is the largest cargo traffic hub in . It is considered a primary port by the Indonesian Government, along with the , , and . is situated 1¼ km north of Fort Rotterdam.

Fort Rotterdam

Latitude
-5.13394° or 5° 8′ 2″ south
Longitude
119.40563° or 119° 24′ 20″ east
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Inception
1679
Open location code
6P6XVC84+C7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 195837380
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­battlefield
Geo­Names ID
12501380
Wiki­data ID
Q29771
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Banjar to Vietnamese—“Fort Rotterdam” goes by many names.
  • Banjar: “Fort Rotterdam”
  • Catalan: “Fort Rotterdam”
  • Chinese: “鹿特丹堡”
  • Czech: “Pevnost Rotterdam”
  • Dutch: “Fort Rotterdam”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حصن روتردام”
  • French: “fort Rotterdam”
  • French: “Fort Rotterdam”
  • German: “Fort Rotterdam”
  • Indonesian: “Benteng Fort Rotterdam”
  • Indonesian: “Benteng Panynyua”
  • Indonesian: “Benteng Penyu”
  • Indonesian: “Benteng Rotterdam”
  • Indonesian: “Benteng Ujung Pandang”
  • Japanese: “ロッテルダム要塞”
  • Javanese: “Bèntèng Rotterdam”
  • Malayalam: “ഫോർട്ട് റോട്ടർഡാം”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fort Rotterdam”
  • Spanish: “Fuerte Róterdam”
  • Vietnamese: “Fort Rotterdam”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Rotterdam”. Photo: Sanko, CC BY-SA 3.0.