✨ Maritime Navigation Notice
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. XIII. FRIDAY, 23RD FEBRUARY, 1856. No. 4.
Notice to Mariners.
NEW ZEALAND, PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.
FIXED LIGHT ON SOAMES’ ISLAND,
PORT NICHOLSON HARBOR.
HIS HONOUR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs it to be notified that on the night of SATURDAY, the SEVENTEENTH day of FEBRUARY next, and every night thereafter, from the going away of daylight in the evening to the return of daylight in the morning, a LIGHT will be exhibited from the undermentioned Lighthouse, the position and characteristics of which have been specified by John Halliday, Harbor Master of the Province of Wellington, as follows:—
PORT NICHOLSON HARBOR LIGHT.
The Lighthouse is situated on Soames’ Island, and has been constructed and arranged chiefly as a leading light for vessels entering the port through the main channel. The Light is Catadioptric, of the fourth order, showing a fixed White Light in mid-channel, a fixed Red Light on the Western, and a fixed Green Light on the Eastern shore, and will be exhibited from an Octagonal Tower of iron, painted white. The Light will be about seventy-four (74) feet above high-water mark, and is visible in ordinary weather at a distance of ten (10) nautical miles, or four (4) miles outside Pencarrow Head Light.
From centre of Ward’s Island:
- Pencarrow Point ... N. 24° W.
- Outer Rock, Barrett Reef ... N. 7° W.
- Steeple Rock ... North.
- Gordon Point ... N. 14° E.
- Halswell Point ... N. 35° E.
- Jerningham Point ... N. 45° E.
- Queen’s Wharf ... N. 53° E.
- Pipitea Point ... N. 60° E.
- Kai Warra Warra ... N. 74° E.
CAUTION.
Masters of Vessels entering the Port through the main entrance are cautioned not to shut the White Light in after bringing Pencarrow Light to bear E.N.E. This White Light will lead in clear of all dangers, and may be steered for until the Red Light on the Queen’s Wharf bears W.S.W., when a course may be steered for any part of the anchorage as convenient.
The Bearings are Magnetic. Variation, 15° E. in 1855.
A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE,
Provincial Secretary,
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, January 25, 1856.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1866, No 4
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🚂 Fixed Light on Soames’ Island, Port Nicholson Harbor
🚂 Transport & Communications25 January 1856
Lighthouse, Navigation, Maritime Safety, Port Nicholson, Wellington
- John Halliday (Harbor Master), Specified lighthouse position and characteristics
- A. Follett Halcombe, Provincial Secretary