heritage asset · lens
Nelson (Boulder Bank)
Chance Brothers 4th-order fixed lens (made 1861, installed 1862), prefabricated in England and shipped for assembly at Boulder Bank, Nelson NZ; deactivated 1982 as NZ's then-oldest active lighthouse, now Heritage NZ Category 1.
At a glance
- Manufacture date
- 1861
- Lens order
- 4th order
- Lens type
- Fixed
Source Evidence
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Attribution
"Nelson (Boulder Bank)" · LUX-ASSET-000090 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000090/
Citation
LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Nelson (Boulder Bank)", LUX-ASSET-000090, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000090/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.