Cape Palliser Lighthouse

Cape Palliser Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Cape Palliser in the Wellington region in the south of the North Island of New Zealand. It is operated by Maritime New Zealand.

The cylindrical cast iron tower was built in 1897 and originally put into operation on 27 October of the same year with an oil lamp. The 18 m high tower is painted with red and white rings and is available in 58 m height on the Cape. The lighthouse keeper were supplied every three months from the sea with supplies, which proved on the rocky coast as difficult as it often came to the loss of goods. In rough seas the supplies were unloaded in the more protected, but 6 km away Kawakawa Bay. The house of the lighthouse keeper and the storage shed were located at this lighthouse on the coast, so you at least do not they - like other New Zealand lighthouses - had to create on rail cars up to the lighthouse.

1954, the tower was electrified, the power supply was provided via a diesel generator. 1967, the tower was connected to the power grid. A diesel generator was left as the emergency power supply. 1986, the tower was automated and since then as all lighthouses of New Zealand controlled from a control room in Wellington from.

The lighthouse can be reached via a staircase built in 1902, with more than 250 steps, which replaced the previous dangerous climb along a dirt path over the cliffs of the cape. The fuel of the lighthouse was pulled up with a hand winch the cliffs.