Cape Egmont Lighthouse is a

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Cape Egmont Cape Egmont, splitting Northern and Southern Taranaki Bights, is the westernmost point of Taranaki, on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is located close to the volcanic cone of Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont. It was named '' ...

in the

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of the

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of New Zealand.Cape Egmont Lighthouse Profile
(from the

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. The light was manufactured by Simpson & Co.,

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, in 1864 and erected on Mana Island to the north west of

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in 1865, but it was sometimes confused with the Pencarrow Head light at the entrance to Wellington Harbour and in 1877 the light was dismantled and moved to Cape Egmont. The light was demanned and fully automated in 1986.

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