Baring Head Lighthouse

Baring Head Lighthouse is a concrete Lighthouse at Baring Head within the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, with an LED beacon powered with the aid of mains power. It is owned and operated through Maritime New Zealand, and may be accessed through on foot tracks within the southern vicinity of the East Harbour Regional Park, south of Wainuiomata. The lighthouse tower is 12.2 m tall but the hilltop elevation gives a focal peak of 87 m. The light range is 10 nautical miles. Its reason became to be the main approach light to the Wellington Harbour, in addition to a coastal mild for the Cook Strait.

Lit on 18 June 1935, it changed the mild at Pencarrow Head, which become decommissioned later that yr. The lighthouse become to begin with powered via a diesel generator but became converted to mains power in 1950. The one thousand W mild changed into fully computerized in 1989 and demanned. In February 2005, the original lens was replaced by means of a flashing LED beacon seen from up to 18 kilometers.