Waipapa Point Lighthouse New Zealand
by Joan Carroll
Title
Waipapa Point Lighthouse New Zealand
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
Considering the wind and seas we observed on the day of our visit, it wasn’t surprising to learn that Waipapa Point marks the scene of New Zealand’s worst civilian shipwreck. Located (almost) at the tip of the South Island in Southland New Zealand, Waipapa Point Lighthouse is at the western end of the region known as the Catlins. On 29 April 1881, 131 people were drowned when the passenger steamer Tararua was wrecked on a reef off the point. Tararua was on one of its regular trips between Otago and Melbourne, via the southern coast of New Zealand. After the shipwreck a Court of Inquiry, investigating the loss of the Tararua, recommended a light be erected on the point. A light was ordered from England immediately, and work began on building the wooden tower and houses for three keepers and their families. It was the second to last wooden lighthouse tower built in New Zealand. The light was lit for the first time on New Year’s Day in 1884. The station was automated and the last keepers were withdrawn in 1975 and in 1988 it was converted to solar power with a modern filament lamp. Technology moves on and the light was changed to an LED beacon in 2008.
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Joan carroll, lighthouse, lighthouses, sand dunes, sea grass, seascape
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