27/11/2024
Good evening Wednesday Landlubbers🐀, maybe something that still remains in our memory from those beautiful times? 🔎📝💌🩷
Cape Palliser
Colours: Dark blue and grey-black.
THIS Lighthouse situated at the southern tip of the North Island, stands guard over the eastern approach to Cook Strait The light first came into operation on October 27th. 1897
Stephens stand
COLOURS: Deep brown and pale orange.
THIS PROMINENT guide for shipping passing through Cook Strait, is situated of the northern tip of D'Urville Island and is approximately 60 miles in a direct Fine N.W. of Wellington and about the same distance N.E. of Nelson.
Cape Brell
Colours Light brown and blue
SITUATED about 20 miles due cast of Waitangi, Bay of Islands, Cape Brett Lighthouse first came into operation on 21st Its February. 1910, and was the kind in New Zealand in first of which the light machinery revolves in a mercury Boat. The cast iron tower was made in New Zealand, the lantern, machinery and light apparatus being imported from Great Britain.
The Brothers
COLOURS: Brown and turquoise blue.
THIS ISLAND is one of a small group of rocky islands off the north coast of the South laland and at the narrowest part of Cook Strait. Built about 250 feet above sea level, this light came into operation on September 24th, 1877.
