Mokohinau Islands Lighthouse

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Mokohinau Islands Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Burgess Iceland, one of the islands of Mokohinau Islands off the northeast coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is operated by Maritime New Zealand. With its isolated location on an uninhabited island 50 km from Cape Rodney, he is one of the lighthouses with the largest distance to the mainland of the country. He serves as an orientation for zusteuernde from the Pacific to New Zealand ships.

The cylindrical brick tower was built in 1883 and put into operation on 18 June of the same year. The 14 m high tower is 52 m in height

He was initially lit by an oil lamp. 1939, the tower was electrified and powered by a diesel generator.

1980, the tower was automated and deducted the lighthouse keeper. He has since, like all lighthouses in New Zealand from a central control room at the headquarters of Maritime New Zealand remotely in Wellington.

1996 1000W lamp and the diesel generator was replaced by a rotating beacon with a 35W halogen bulb that is powered via battery-backed solar cells.

After the steamboat Niagara was sunk on 19 June 1940, one of the set by a German destroyer with shipping routes in the area mines, it was thought, the destroyer had been based at this lighthouse. The beacon was therefore taken out of service until 1947.

The lighthouse keeper on the island were supplied only three times a year with supplies and otherwise had no means of communication with the mainland. If delayed, the supply ship, the guards had to survive eating everything they could find on the island. A complaint letter to a minister shortly after commissioning brought no improvement. To build one of the lighthouse keepers in 1908 a small boat from sheet with sailing and put letters to a friend, the nearest shop and the New Zealand Marine Department into it. The boat was found on the mainland and after nine days, a supply ship was underway. The Auckland Museum makes this boat as " smallest post boat in the world " from.