Cuvier Island light keepers at their radiotelephone in 1956.
The two pages immediately below, referring to marine navigation beacons (RDF) and lighthouse radio systems, are from a NZ Post Office engineering lecture for trainee radio engineers. The document, dated January 1960, is courtesy Chris Underwood.
Locations of New Zealand lighthouses (2016)
Source: Maritime New Zealand, which manages 23 of lighthouses and 75 lightbeacons that are outside harbour limits. (Harbour authorities also have lighthouses and lightbeacons.)
» For details of specific lighthouses, please refer to the subpages under this heading.
On a somewhat-related note, here’s a 1907 photo of men installing a visual beacon in the Hauraki Gulf. Building aids to safe navigation was not a simple or easy task!
