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NEW ZEALAND LIGHTHOUSES
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Hokitika (1879) Hokitika port was busy during the 1870's, with vessels leaving for Jackson Bay, Okarita, Westport and Nelson and a steamer service to Melbourne, Australia. Therfore the harbour board requested the Marine Department build a harbour lighthouse. First lit on 222d September, 1879, the wooden (Kauri) lighthouse used a doptric light burning gas from the town's supply. The light was extinguished in 1925.
If anyone has any information on this light please contact me. kiwimark@comcast.net
DIRECTIONS: The base of this lighthouse is located at Seaview.
Text and photographs. Copyright © 1999-2005 Mark Phillips. All rights reserved. |