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Kātiki
Kātiki is a small settlement in North Otago, New Zealand. It lies between the townships of Palmerston and Hampden on State Highway 1 at the northern end of Kātiki Beach, close to the Moeraki Peninsula. The tip of the peninsula, Kātiki Point, is the site of Kātiki Point Lighthouse. The scenic reserve of Trotter's Gorge is located just inland of Kātiki. There is uncertainty about the origin of the name, though it could have originally been ''Ka tiki'' ("The carved figures"). The settlement was called ''Kartigi'' until 1927, this former name stressing the local Southern Māori pronunciation. The town no longer has any signage but for a small bridge sign 'Katiki bridge'. Further north along the coast from the lighthouse are two small settlements called the Katiki Kaiks ("kaik" is the Southern Māori version of the term ''kāinga'', meaning village). The houses at the kaiks are very basic and predominantly cribs (holiday homes). Property is difficult to attain there as it ...
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Kātiki Point Lighthouse
The Kātiki Point Lighthouse, also known as Moeraki Lighthouse, shone for the first time in 1878, following several accidents on the dangerous reefs around the area, to make the area safer for ships that sailed past on their way to Port Chalmers, Dunedin. The lighthouse was built between the settlements of Moeraki and Kātiki, on the tip of the Moeraki Peninsula, which is known as Katiki Point, Kātiki Point or Moeraki Point. History The point has a long history of wrecks, notably the wrecking of the ancestral Waka (canoe), waka atua on a return trip from Hawaiki, leaving some of the cargo being on the beach at Kātiki, below the lighthouse. Tradition holds that the remains of the cargo are the Moeraki Boulders. Just before the light was to be lit for the first time, a storm shook the tower to the extent that the lamp glass broke. A new one had to be ordered, and the tower was strengthened, before the light was lit on 22 April 1878. The wooden tower stands high and above se ...
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