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- Bean Rock lighthouse has a Category 1 registration (number 3295) under the Historic Places Act.[7] As it is a working lighthouse, it is not open to the public.[2].
- Bean Rock Lighthouse has kept seafarers safe in the Waitematā Harbour for more than 150 years.
- Once again it seems from the advertising on Auckland Council Events Site that there is the annual swim in 2014 - out to and around Bean Rock Lighthouse.
- In 1912 it installed its first automatic acetylene light at Bean Rock and the lighthouse became the first watched light to lose it's resident keeper.
- ...this would offer an unfair advantage over other competitors so sailing instructions usually stipulate that the Bean Rock lighthouse must be passed to seaward.
- The base was reinforced using masonry quarried from nearby Rangitoto Island. Bean Rock Lighthouse was officially lit on 24 July 1871.
- Bean Rock Lighthouse was built to be manned full time. Now it’s uninhabited and a mess inside (see video below) which is a shame.
- Fullers has 3 trips per day in summer and the ferry passes close to Bean Rock Lighthouse on the way back.
- The Bean Rock Lighthouse is registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category I structure, with registration number 3295.
- No trip out to Rangitoto would have been complete without a moment or two spent gazing at the rather lovely sight of the hexagonal Bean Rock lighthouse which is...
