Puysegur Point is located in the far southwest of the South Island of New Zealand. It lies within Fiordland National Park on the southern head of Preservation Inlet. It lies 145 kilometres (90 mi) west-northwest of Invercargill. It is the site of a lighthouse station now automated but for many years the home of three married permanent lighthouse keepers. The original wooden lighthouse was burnt down in 1943 by a man who had recently left a psychiatric hospital and made his way down to Coal Island across the fjord from the lighthouse. He decided the light was a deliberate plot to keep him awake at night by shining in his window so took matters into his own hands. He held all the keepers hostage with a rifle, smashed the radio telephone and set fire to the lighthouse. The concrete lighthouse
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| - La Punta Puysegur es el punto que se encuentra más al suroeste de la Isla Sur de Nueva Zelanda donde se sitúa un faro, dentro del Parque nacional de Fiordland en la cabecera sur del fiordo de . Se sitúa a 145 km al oeste-noroeste de la ciudad de Invercargill. (es)
- Puysegur Point is located in the far southwest of the South Island of New Zealand. It lies within Fiordland National Park on the southern head of Preservation Inlet. It lies 145 kilometres (90 mi) west-northwest of Invercargill. It is the site of a lighthouse station now automated but for many years the home of three married permanent lighthouse keepers. The original wooden lighthouse was burnt down in 1943 by a man who had recently left a psychiatric hospital and made his way down to Coal Island across the fjord from the lighthouse. He decided the light was a deliberate plot to keep him awake at night by shining in his window so took matters into his own hands. He held all the keepers hostage with a rifle, smashed the radio telephone and set fire to the lighthouse. The concrete lighthouse (en)
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| - La Punta Puysegur es el punto que se encuentra más al suroeste de la Isla Sur de Nueva Zelanda donde se sitúa un faro, dentro del Parque nacional de Fiordland en la cabecera sur del fiordo de . Se sitúa a 145 km al oeste-noroeste de la ciudad de Invercargill. (es)
- Puysegur Point is located in the far southwest of the South Island of New Zealand. It lies within Fiordland National Park on the southern head of Preservation Inlet. It lies 145 kilometres (90 mi) west-northwest of Invercargill. It is the site of a lighthouse station now automated but for many years the home of three married permanent lighthouse keepers. The original wooden lighthouse was burnt down in 1943 by a man who had recently left a psychiatric hospital and made his way down to Coal Island across the fjord from the lighthouse. He decided the light was a deliberate plot to keep him awake at night by shining in his window so took matters into his own hands. He held all the keepers hostage with a rifle, smashed the radio telephone and set fire to the lighthouse. The concrete lighthouse which replaced it has now in turn been replaced by two automated beacons. The name 'Puysegur' was bestowed by Lieutenant Jules Dumont d'Urville or Midshipman Jules de Blosseville during a South Pacific expedition of La Coquille; probably in honour of the French naval officer Antoine-Hyacinthe-Anne de Chastenet de Puységur (1752–1809). A large earthquake in this region on 15 July 2009 pushed Puysegur Point closer to Australia by 30 centimetres (12 in). Humpback whales pass the point during annual migrations. (en)
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