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Kōrero: Lighthouses

A keeper’s life

Video file

This National Film Unit Weekly review of 1947 evokes the lonely life of a keeper at The Brothers lighthouse, off the north-east tip of the South Island. The routine weather reports are broken only by the company of seagulls and tuatara lizards.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Weekly Review 305

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Helen Beaglehole, Lighthouses – Lighthouse keepers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/6668/a-keepers-life (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Helen Beaglehole, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.