Point Halswell Lighthouse
Point Halswell Lighthouse is a lighthouse in New Zealand. Point Halswell Lighthouse is situated nearby to Massey Memorial, as well as near the fort Kau Point Battery.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Massey Memorial and Kau Point Battery.
Massey Memorial
Memorial
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The Massey Memorial is the mausoleum of New Zealand Prime Minister William Massey, at Point Halswell on the Miramar Peninsula, Wellington, New Zealand. Massey Memorial is situated 130 metres south of Point Halswell Lighthouse.
Kau Point Battery
Fort
Kau Point Battery is a 19th-century coast defence battery constructed in Wellington, New Zealand in the 1890s. It is located on the east side of Point Halswell in Wellington, New Zealand, approximately midway between the Massey Memorial and Fort Ballance, close to the site of the ancient Māori settlement of Kau-whakaara-waru. Kau Point Battery is situated 1 km southeast of Point Halswell Lighthouse.
Fort Ballance
Castle
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Fort Ballance is a former coastal artillery battery on Point Gordon on Wellington's Miramar Peninsula. Built in 1885 following fears of an impending war with Russia, Fort Ballance is one of the best preserved of a string of nineteenth century coastal fortifications constructed to protect New Zealand from naval attack. Fort Ballance is situated 1½ km southeast of Point Halswell Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maupuia and Karaka Bays.
Maupuia
Suburb
Maupuia on the Miramar Peninsula is an eastern suburb of Wellington to the north-west of Miramar. Developed in the 1970s, it is in the Eastern Ward. The northern part of the peninsula, sometimes known as Crawford, includes Maupuia Park, the former Wellington…
Karaka Bays
Suburb
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Karaka Bays is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It lies on the northeast coast of the Miramar Peninsula, 6 km east-south-east of the city centre, and has an expansive view of Wellington Harbour.
Roseneath
Suburb
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Roseneath is an affluent suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, located east of Oriental Bay and north of Hataitai. The peninsula was named after Rosneath, a village on the Rosneath Peninsula on Scotland's River Clyde.
Point Halswell Lighthouse
- Type: Lighthouse
- Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.28384° or 41° 17′ 2″ southLongitude
174.82613° or 174° 49′ 34″ eastOpen location code
4VCPPR8G+FCOpenStreetMap ID
way 690129742OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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