Waipapa Point Lighthouse is located on the southern coastline at Waipapa Point, Southland. The lighthouse was automated and keepers withdrawn in 1975. It has been solar powered since 1988 and a LED beacon was installed in December 2008.br/br/Waipapa Point marks the scene of New Zealand's worst civilian shipwreck. On 29 April 1881, 131 people were drowned when the passenger steamer Tararua, was wrecked on a reef off the point. Only 20 people survived the disaster.