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Bean Rock lighthouse
Lighthouse in New Zealand
- Heritage NZ List — Category 1 Historic Place
- 7.9 km from you
An old lighthouse (Bean Rock) near the entrance to the Waitemata Harbour in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, somewhere south of Rangitoto Island. New Zealand…. Photograph by Ingolfson, Public domain.
Listed as: Heritage NZ List — Category 1 Historic Place.
The story
Bean Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse situated at the end of a reef in the Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the only remaining example in New Zealand of a wooden cottage-style lighthouse, and it is one of only a few remaining worldwide. It is also the oldest wooden lighthouse and only wave-washed tower in New Zealand. It is owned, operated and maintained by Ports of Auckland.
- Built
- 1871
- Materials
- structural wood
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