Story: Hot springs, mud pools and geysers

Springs of Mother Earth

Coloured, mineralised sinter, including cyanobacteria, surrounds one of the Springs of Mother Earth at Waimangu.

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Carol Stewart, Hot springs, mud pools and geysers – Hot springs and related features, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6489/springs-of-mother-earth (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carol Stewart, published 2 March 2009.