Cape Egmont Lighthouse

Cape Egmont Lighthouse
Place:	Cape Egmont, Taranaki , North Island , New Zealand
Location:	Taranaki , New Zealand
Geographical location:	39 ° 16 '34.5 "  S , 173 ° 45' 18.1"  E Coordinates: 39 ° 16 '34.5 "  S , 173 ° 45' 18.1"  E
Height of tower base:	33  m
Fire carrier height :	20 m
Identifier :	FL W 8s
Scope knows:	19 nm (35.2 km )
Operating mode:	18xx oil lamp 19xx electrification 1986 automated
Function:	lighthouse
Construction time:	1881
Operating time:	since 1881

Cape Egmont Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Cape Egmont in South Taranaki District in the Taranaki region on the North Island of New Zealand . It is operated by Maritime New Zealand .

The lighthouse was built in 1864 by Simpson & Co. in the London borough of Pimlico and originally erected the following year on Mana Island northwest of Porirua . However, since it was confused with the lighthouse on Pencarrow Head at the entrance to Wellington Harbor , the tower was dismantled in 1877 and rebuilt on Cape Egmont.

The tower was automated in 1986 and, like all New Zealand lighthouses, has since been remotely controlled from a control room at Maritime New Zealand's headquarters in Wellington .

On December 11, 2003, the tower was registered as a Category 2 Historic Place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust under number 802.

Web links

Commons : Cape Egmont Lighthouse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Cape Egmont . Maritime New Zealand , accessed October 18, 2018 .  
2. ^ Cape Egmont Lighthouse . Heritage New Zealand , December 11, 2003, accessed February 9, 2016 .