The year after the Mutan incident (1875), because of the earlier Rover incident, both the United States and Japan requested that a lighthouse be erected on the southern tip of the peninsula. The Ching Court then dispatched a certain Mr. Beazeley, a member of the Royal Geographic Societyof the United Kingdom, to find a suitable spot for a lighthouse here.
牡丹社事件的次年（一八七五年），由於之前的「羅妹號事件」，美國與日本均要求半島南端設置燈塔，於是清廷委託英國皇家地理學會會員的畢齊禮來此尋找建塔地點。