After I featured a lighthouse in Australia last week, I checked to see the last time I'd featured a lighthouse from New Zealand. New Zealand has fantastically situated lighthouses, and I have indeed shown some before. Surprisingly, though, not since 2016. So I have returned.
This one is located on Cape Brett, New Zealand. If you're wondering where that is, so did I. It turns out that Cape Brett, now a nature preserve, is on the Northland Peninsula of the North Island. The Northland Peninsula attaches to the square/diamond shape of the North Island roughly at Auckland, and points northward toward the Coral Sea.
Cape Brett is about 2/3 of the way toward the end of the peninsula, on the east side. It's a natural preserve. See the map below. You can also learn about the Cape Brett Walkway.
On this map, the lighthouse icon out at the end of the cape marks the Cape Brett lighthouse. Also note, next to it, the "Hole in the Rock", a scenic geological/geographical landmark in the island archipelago that has likely hundreds of scenic geological/geographical landmarks. I grabbed a picture of it, too.
Given below is some information about the Cape Brett lighthouse. It was recently fixed up and looks pretty good, though it isn't staffed anymore.
"[Established] 1910. Inactive since 1978. Approx. 15 m (50 ft) round cast iron tower with lantern, painted white. The active light (focal plane 146 m (479 ft); white flash every 15 s) is on a 4 m (13 ft) cylindrical fiberglass tower standing in front of the historic lighthouse."Pictures below, and a video!
The "Hole in the Rock"; note tour ship for scale.
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