Cape Brett Lighthouse is a

lighthouse A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens (optics), lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Ligh ...

at Cape Brett in the

Northland Region Northland (), officially the Northland Region, is the northernmost of New Zealand's 16 regions of New Zealand, local government regions. New Zealanders sometimes refer to it as the Winterless North because of its mild climate all throughout t ...

of the

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of New Zealand. The site was surveyed and chosen in 1908 by Captain John Bollons of NZGSS ''Hinemoa''. The lighthouse was deactivated and keepers were withdrawn in 1978 and replaced by an automated beacon on the same site. Cape Brett Lighthouse and its associated structures are on the

Heritage New Zealand Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (initially the National Historic Places Trust and then, from 1963 to 2014, the New Zealand Historic Places Trust; in ) is a Crown entity that advocates for the protection of Archaeology of New Zealand, ancest ...

list as a Category 1 Historic Place List No: 7799. It was registered on 26 June 2009.

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Website of New Zealand Historic Trust "Cape Brett Lighthouse Station"

History of Cape Brett Lightouse
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