This Trigonometrical Station is built on a square platform with 4 steps on all four sides. Four cylindrical pillars stand on the platform. The diameter of each cylinder gradually decreases as it goes higher. The Bottom cylinder is shorter than the other 3. The top 3 cylinders seem to be of the same height.
The ancient Bo Tree at Paralay Murugan Kovil in Chulipuram East in Walikamam West is believed to be the very first sapling of the Sri Maja Bodhi in Anuradhapura. However the Buddhist pilgrims to Jaffna seems to be have totally forgotten about this historic site today.
Chirutivu Island (Siruthivu Island) is a tear shaped island close to the mainland of Jaffna which has been sold to property developer with the intention of building a luxury eco tourism resort. Work has been started about 10 years ago but not completed.
Katchatheevu (Kachchativu) is a small 163-acre (0.66 square kilometers), barren, uninhabited island located in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. It lies right in the center of Rameswaram in India and Delft Island of Sri Lanka with about 20km on both sides.
Around the main stupa on Delft Island, the remains of 4 other smaller attendant stupas were found in the 1830s. All of them are cube shaped. According to him, there were originally 6 Parivar Stupas here. There have always been two stupas on both sides of the steps leading to the square platform from the east and west and one stupa each from the north and south.
Pungudutivu is an island in Jaffna peninsula separated from the mainland from east by a shallow channel approximately 3.5 km away. A 3.8 km causeway connects this island to mainland. A 1.75 km wide channel to Nainativu separates the island from the west.
Chundikkulam Lagoon and its surrounding area was designated as a bird sanctuary on in 1938 and became a national park in 2015. Chundikkulam Lagoon is partly surrounded by mangrove swamps and seagrass beds. The surrounding area includes palmyra palm trees, scrub forests and a variety of dry
Singhai Ariya, was the first Ariya Chakravarthy (13th century). Originally from South India, he eventually made Nallur the capital and sought divine protection to the celebrated city by erecting temples for worship of Hindu deities, in the four directions around it. Veyil Ugantha Pillaiyar Kovil was erected in the eastern approaches to Nallur.
The Queens Tower at Delft is 55 feet in height. It has five levels, each level a little smaller than the bottom. There is a doorway on the bottom level which goes all the way to the opposite side of the tower.
Very little is documented about the trigonometric station, Kings Tower. However W. H Cole in 1884 records 2 triangulation stations in Delft as observed in 1876. One on the north western end of the island and the other on the south eastern point of the island.
uins of an ancient stable built by the Dutch can be found on the western edge of the island, 380 meters inland from the sea. The stable is about 150 meters long 10 meters wide and One full side wall exists today. The stable has been built on two rows 36 large square pillars.
The hospital built by the Dutch can be found in front of current police station on the island. The tiles of this building have been imported from Bangalore, India and bears the year 1865. Currently this building is been renovated.
This unique Pigeons Nest is found on the adjoining land to Delft Divisional Secretariat among the other ruins. According to historical sources, the Dutch who lived in Delft and other surrounding islands, used to communicate between other islands using homing pigeons.
Mahavamsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka, mentions 3 temples built by King Devanampiyatissa in the Naga Dveepa which is considered as the names used for Jaffna Peninsula as a whole. These 3 are Jambukola Viharaya, Tissa Maha Viharaya and Pachinaramaya.
Hidden under palmyrah trees of the Nagadeepa island lies the strangely named Buddha Walawwa Rajamaha Viharaya shadowed by the Nagadeepa Viharaya which was visited by the Buddha during his second visit to the country, five years after his enlightenment.
Myliddy is a fishing village on the northern coast of Jaffna Peninsula. The village has its own fisheries harbour for fishing boats. The photo from 1971 shows this church in ruins with only walls remaining.
A ruined site named Sankiliya-tidal (Sankiliyatital) about four and a half miles on the Kodikamam—Point Pedro road which had indications of an ancient building possibly linked to the regional king Sankili
In 1922, Rev. S. Gnana Prakasar, a missionary working in Jaffna had left a detailed note a ruined site, possibly a Buddhist monastery at an area named ‘Verak-Kadu’ in Jaffna peninsula.
According to folklore, this site at Kalvalai has been the adobe of seven queens. Their names are handed down as Angai-Nachy, Ko-Nachy, Manni-Nachy, Kunkuni-Nachy and the rest unnamed. There has been an internal quarrel between the queens and they have left leaving the personal attendants and maids at the site.
Megalithic Burial Grounds of Anaikoddai lies close the inner most point of the bay, about 500 meters inwards. An archaeological survey has been carried out in this to study early settlements in the 1980.
