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Horohoro Cliffs

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Horohoro Cliffs

The bush-clad Horohoro Cliffs stand out behind Volcanic Plateau farmland. In the foreground is the Whirinaki valley. and in the middle distance the districts of Horohoro and Guthrie.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Volcanic Plateau places – Rotorua to Taupō, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15048/horohoro-cliffs (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2009, updated 25 May 2015.

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Jerry G Wiringi
14 October 2024
Back in the mid to late 1960s our forestry contractor N.C. King and his crew of workers did a few months of release cutting up to The Horohoro Bluff to give the young trees sunlight and help them to grow... Cheers JG Wiringi...