heritage asset · lens
Taiaroa Head Lighthouse
Chance Brothers 3rd-order fixed lens (made 1863, lit 1865) at Taiaroa Head, NZ -- first NZ lighthouse fitted with acetylene (1921); now remotely monitored from Wellington.
At a glance
- Manufacture date
- 1863
- Lens order
- 3rd order
- Lens type
- Fixed
Source Evidence
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Attribution
"Taiaroa Head Lighthouse" · LUX-ASSET-000092 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000092/
Citation
LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Taiaroa Head Lighthouse", LUX-ASSET-000092, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000092/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.