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… a phantom war canoe sped silently across the waters of Lake Tarawera in the shadow of Mt. Tarawera, the “Burnt Peak” of the Maoris, its outline … TARAWERA, PHANTOM CANOE …
… steep bush-clad slopes giving it great scenic beauty. Lake Tarawera is a broad, branching lake with fairly flat floor filling a valley between Haroharo and Tarawera lava flows over which the Kaituna flows out to the … formed by steam-blast eruptions which accompanied the Tarawera eruption of 1886 and which destroyed the famous …
… and White Terraces, destroyed in 1886 by the eruption of Tarawera. Hot springs remain in some of the other craters to … 1 sq. mile. Onepu springs near Kawerau, on the banks of the Tarawera River, have been drilled for steam for the Tasman … have volcanic association. Isolated hot springs occur at Tarawera, Morere, Te Puia, and Puketitiri, east of the …
… Statistics declare that when Mt. Tarawera, 20 miles from Rotorua in the thermal region of the … difficult to believe that any one could have survived. Mt. Tarawera had long been believed to be extinct as a volcano, … Te Wairoa, 9 miles from the mountain, on the shores of Lake Tarawera, was razed and all but covered with ash and mud. It …
… is situated on the flat land in the central valley of the Tarawera River and immediately northwest of the 2,697 ft … and the mill site, separated from the town site by the Tarawera River, was bought from its Maori owners. A factor …
… J. P. Maxwell and G. Beetham in 1879. On 10 June 1886 Mount Tarawera suddenly erupted violently. A line of craters was … About 100 people lost their lives. It is now known that Tarawera had lain dormant for about 900 years since a … Maroa and Okataina volcanic centres, the latter including Tarawera. These places remain as potential danger spots. …
… picturesque lakes such as Rotoiti, Rotoehu, Okataina, and Tarawera. The largest of these rhyolite domes are Haroharo and Tarawera. The latter is an elongated group of three … have grown above the remnants of an older dome. The great Tarawera eruption of 10 June 1886 threw out basalt from a …
… Island), Moutohora, Okakaru, the Rotorua thermal district, Tarawera, Paeroa, Orakeikorako, and Taupo. It travelled …
… Assistant Surveyor-General in 1882. Immediately after the Tarawera eruption he was instructed to report on the … August, his final report being embodied in The Eruption of Tarawera (1886). In August 1887 he sailed with Captain …
… at St. Stephen's, Auckland, and at Wairoa, near Lake Tarawera. About two months before the Tarawera eruption (1886) Bishop Suter visited a temperance …