New Zealand's first permanent lighthouse has turned 150.
The Pencarrow lighthouse in Wellington first shone in 1859 and was operated by the country's only female lighthouse keeper, Mary Jane Bennett.
She was the wife of the previous keeper who drowned in the harbour four years earlier.
Prior to the construction of the lighthouse, and in response to the loss of a ship and 30 lives in 1851, the pair had operated a light from a bay window in their cottage.
Pencarrow's light system and pre-fabricated cast iron tower were ordered from England, arriving in 480 packages in 1858.
The lighthouse stopped operating in 1935.
