Cape Egmont Lighthouse, Maritime navigation lighthouse in South Taranaki District, New Zealand.
Cape Egmont Lighthouse is a white cylindrical cast iron tower rising 20 meters (66 feet) above the southwestern coast of North Island. The structure features a tapered conical design built to withstand the exposed ocean conditions at this coastal point.
The light was made by Simpson & Co. of Pimlico, London, in 1864 and erected on Mana Island in 1865. Because it was sometimes confused with the Pencarrow Head light at the entrance to Wellington Harbour, it was dismantled in 1877 and re-erected at Cape Egmont. It was registered as a Historic Place Category 2 by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust on 11 December 2003.
The tower is a Category 2 Historic Place, registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust on 11 December 2003 under number 802. It is one of the landmarks of the Taranaki coast, and its light is monitored from a control room at Maritime New Zealand's Wellington office, like every other lighthouse in the country.
The lighthouse stands at the end of Cape Road, off Surf Highway 45, in the Taranaki region. The tower itself is not open to the public; visitors view it from the surrounding reserve. The cape is exposed to the Tasman Sea, so wind and rain gear are useful at any time of year.
The lighthouse was registered as a Historic Place Category 2 by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust on 11 December 2003, under registration number 802. Since 1986 it has been remotely controlled from a control room at Maritime New Zealand's Wellington headquarters, like all New Zealand lighthouses.
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