Story: Lighthouses
Page 6. External links and sources
More links and websites
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Guardians of the light
Excerpts from a 2008 documentary about New Zealand lighthouse keepers, on the NZ On Screen website.
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Maritime New Zealand
The site of New Zealand’s authority on maritime
safety includes information on lighthouses and
lights.
More suggestions and sources
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Alpin, Jeanette. The lighthouse keeper’s
wife: an autobiography. Auckland: Cape Catley,
2001. -
Beaglehole, Helen E. Lighting the coast: a
history of New Zealand’s system of coastal
lighthouses. Christchurch: Canterbury
University Press, 2006. - Fox, Lois. Wild waves and isolation: memories of a childhood on Centre Island Lighthouse, Foveaux Strait. Matamata: L. A. Fox, 2003.
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Kemp, Bill. Pass safely sailor.
Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2004. -
Ross, John O’Connell. The lighthouses of New
Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 1975. -
Sheehan, Grant, and Anna Gibbons. Leading
lights: lighthouses of New Zealand.
Christchurch: Hazard, 1991. -
Taylor, Peter. As darker grows the
night. Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton,
1975.
How to cite this page
Helen Beaglehole, Lighthouses, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/13304/sources (accessed 10 June 2026).
Story by Helen Beaglehole, published 2 March 2009.