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… long water has been in the ground since it fell as rain. At Rotorua, rainwater takes at least 100 years to emerge as hot … The fabled Pink and White Terraces, at Lake Rotomahana near Rotorua, were probably the world’s most famous example. …
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Part of story: Hot springs, mud pools and geysers
… the Te Arawa people living on Mokoia Island, in Lake Rotorua. Te Arawa only knew of the imminent attack when a … offshore island birds, with the exception of a few at Lake Rotorua in the North Island. Here they nest alongside …
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Part of story: Gulls, terns and skuas
… north, visiting Gisborne, Auckland, Coromandel, Thames, Rotorua, Napier, Palmerston North, Wanganui, Patea and New … Patea, New Plymouth and Auckland, returning through Rotorua, Gisborne and Napier. In November he visited … he returned to Gisborne, Coromandel, Auckland, Thames and Rotorua and in April visited Christchurch, Akaroa, …
Type: Biography
… of houses such as Nuku-te-apiapi at Whakarewarewa in Rotorua, where the carvings are highly figurative and … (front post) of the house for restoration, the names of the Rotorua School carvers who had worked on the house were …
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Part of story: Whakairo – Māori carving
… liberated into wild habitats such as Lake Taupō and Lake Rotorua in the 1870s, and by the 2000s were widespread, … of Morrison’s name. For some time morihana were a food for Rotorua Māori. Koi carp Koi or European carp ( Cyprinus …
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Part of story: Coarse fish
… of Water and Atmospheric Research data, 1981–2010) Rotorua Mean temperature, January: 17.7°C Mean temperature, … Ngāti Tahu Population of major urban areas, 2013 Rotorua: 53,265 Taupō: 21,864 Age distribution, 2013 Under …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… there are more than 500 hot springs at Whakarewarewa in Rotorua, the most obvious features are the seven geysers on … The southern end of Fenton Street (the main street of Rotorua) was designed to offer travellers a view of the …
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Part of story: Hot springs, mud pools and geysers
… over the lake. In 2006 the ownership of the beds of many Rotorua lakes was vested in the Te Arawa Lakes Trustees in a … most have been stocked with trout. Except for those in the Rotorua area, the trout fisheries are now self-sustaining. …
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Part of story: Lakes
… Roberts held ‘crusades’ in Christchurch, Wellington and Rotorua in 1965, the largest Pentecostal meetings then seen … Tamaki, who previously headed other churches in Te Awamutu, Rotorua and Auckland. A large proportion of Destiny Church …
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Part of story: Diverse Christian churches
… are a series of low-lying volcanic centres – Taupō, Maroa, Rotorua and Okataina. These serene landscapes were the site … are filled by lakes, including major ones such as Taupō and Rotorua. There are also many smaller volcanic peaks, such as …
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Part of story: Landscapes – overview
… time depends on the size of the hāngī. In regions such as Rotorua hāngī have for centuries been cooked using … tribes. Food could be dried in embers or, in the geothermal Rotorua area, spread on hot rocks. Foods commonly dried …
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Part of story: Māori foods – kai Māori
… on his return, followed by a civic and tribal reception in Rotorua. Vercoe's task was to encourage the Waikato people … down as being too old. He was appointed captain in the Rotorua Home Guard battalion on 1 August 1941, promoted to … New Zealand Māori Council. When Queen Elizabeth II visited Rotorua in 1953 he was in charge of arrangements for the …
Type: Biography
… to Lake Rotoiti to manage a motor camp. When they moved to Rotorua in 1986, Clare took on students, the best of whom … trumpet work were as energetic as ever. Vern Clare died at Rotorua on 18 March 1998, survived by his wife and children. …
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… of the Volcanic Plateau are the Te Arawa people, in the Rotorua area, and Ngāti Tūwharetoa, around Taupō. The … are named after the journeys of early ancestors. Lakes Rotorua and Rotoiti are named after the explorers … also son-in-law) Īhenga. The lakes’ full names are Te Rotoruanui-a-Kahumatamomoe and Te Rotoiti-kite-a-Īhenga. …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… basin, the Cape Colville–Te Aroha range, the hills about Rotorua, the Urewera ranges and Wairoa districts, and the … explorer Īhenga became thirsty while climbing a mountain in Rotorua, and a patupaiarehe woman gave him a drink from a …
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Part of story: Patupaiarehe
… omen. Overcoming the fear A Waikato woman who eloped with a Rotorua warrior later asked her elders’ forgiveness. They …
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Part of story: Ngārara – reptiles
… the last 200 years was on Mt Tarawera (1,111 metres) near Rotorua in 1886. Between 108 and 120 people died as a …
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Part of story: Mountains
… Republican, Democrat and Yankee in Rerewhakaaitu, near Rotorua, record Second World War training by US forces in …
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Part of story: Place names
… who later worked in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Rotorua, and then at Wairoa. Her mother was Pia Ngarotū Te … when she was 10 years old. Periods spent at schools in Rotorua and Tauranga, tuition from an English governess, and … at Whakarewarewa, the ancestral home of her people. The Rotorua region was beginning to recover after the …
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… (the day that Tamatekapua had a bloody nose). Rotorua is Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe (named by Īhenga to honour his …
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Part of story: Tapa whenua – naming places