Cape Palliser

Cape Palliser is the southernmost point in the North Island of New Zealand, it is located about 50 kilometers in a straight line from Wellington at the southern end of Palliser Bay in the Cook Strait. The Cape Palliser is the southern spur of the Aorangi Range, which forms the southern extension of the Tararua Range, together with the Rimutaka Range.

The Cape is located further south than the north of the South Island with the cities of Nelson and Blenheim.

Lighthouse

As to the other three distinctive landmarks of the North Island Cape Reinga, Cape Egmont and East Cape has already received early a lighthouse and the Cape Palliser Cape Palliser with the Lighthouse. Since 1897, it houses a 59 -meter-high, red-white -labeled steely lighthouse. For shipping in the Cook Strait between New Zealand's North and South Islands, the lighthouse is of great importance, since it represents the first marker to the entrance of Wellington Harbour. The lighthouse is about 26 nautical miles visible. Since 1986, the lighthouse is unmanned in automatic mode in use.

The entrance to the Cape is only possible via a narrow road from Featherston around Lake Wairarapa and Martinborough each to the mouth of Raumahanga River and then via track as unpaved coastal road to the lighthouse. Mentioned along this road, near the Putangirua Pinnacles rock formations that have been washed out in the opinion of geologists already 120,000 years ago from a Gletschermure, a scene for the film The Lord of the Rings was filmed here.

Fauna

The Cape Palliser is known in the New Zealand story, especially the first Anlandungsplatz for European sheep. However, since the coastline is very rugged, the sheep were still worn a wide piece into the country, so they do not fall into a crevice after lengthy voyage in the final meters.

At Cape Palliser there is a seal colony ( Seal Colony ) of a type that is only to be found in a further eight places on earth.

Sources and web link

  • Cape Palliser (English)
  • Website of the Department of Conservation to Palliser Bay ( English)

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  • Cape ( New Zealand)
  • Wellington ( Region)
  • Built in the 1890s
  • Cape ( Australia and Oceania)
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