1887 chart of lighthouses in aotearoa and the distances their light can be seen from - very cool and even better zoomed in!

raukawa moana looking almost cosy

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Proud to have been at the biggest ever rally for trans rights in Ōtepoti Dunedin

Brewster hut & glacier from our trip at the end of Poutū-te-rangi

Crayfishing boat 'Argo' in Piopiotahi, Milford Sound 1954

📷 K V Bigwood

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Bean Rock lighthouse, Waitematā Harbour

First lit in 1871 & renovated in 1985 it is Aotearoa's only remaining wave-washed lighthouse & also was the very first to be automated in 1912

📷 Henry Winkelmann 1905 (Auckland Library Heritage Collections 1-W0035)

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& brothers island lighthouse was the last manned in aotearoa - till 1990

watercolour by j frost, 1877

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Pencarrow Lighthouse - aotearoa's first permanent lighthouse (1858) & also the only ever to have had a woman as keeper

This Pic from 1981
📷: unknown

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