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Castle Island is a small uninhabited island 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) off the coast of Hot Water Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. [1] References
The Castle Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse near the village of Castlepoint in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand. In the early days of the 20th century Castle Point was one of the few lighthouses with easy access to a school.
Kennedy Bay (also called Kennedy's Bay and Harataunga) is a locality in the north eastern Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand. The Harataunga and Omoho Streams flow from the Coromandel Range past the settlement and into the bay to the east. [3] [4] There are several companies aquafarming pāua, [5] lobster [6] and mussels [7] in the bay.
Castle Rock is a prominent peak in the Coromandel Range that lies 8.4 kilometres (5.2 mi) southeast of Coromandel town, [2] north of a 532-metre (1,745 ft) peak also called Motutere [Note 1] and south of an unnamed 573-metre (1,880 ft) peak in the headwaters of the westward-flowing Pukewhau Stream.
The lighthouse was built from 1869 to 1870 and first lit on 4 July 1870. [1] The tower was constructed from locally quarried stone. The lighting apparatus that was installed had come to New Zealand on the same ship as the lighthouse designer James Balfour in 1863 and was originally intended for the lighthouse at Cape Saunders.
The Larnach Castle gardens are one of only five gardens nationwide to have been given the rating of "Garden of International Significance" by the New Zealand Gardens Trust. [2] These were the first gardens in the South Island to receive the title. [3] In 2018, Larnach Castle was designated a New Zealand Landmark by Heritage New Zealand. [4]
Castle Point Lighthouse, located near the village of Castlepoint in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, [2] is the North Island's tallest lighthouse standing 52 metres above sea level and is one of only two left in New Zealand still lit by the original rotating fresnel lens. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand.
Pompallier House is a nineteenth-century building located in Russell, New Zealand which once served as the headquarters to the French Catholic mission to the Western Pacific. It is named after Jean Baptiste Pompallier, the first vicar apostolic to visit New Zealand, who founded a number of missions in the North Island.