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… Lying 24 kilometres south-east of Rotorua, Tarawera is a curious-looking mountain, with several large … the Europeans who arrived in the 1800s did not realise that Tarawera was an active volcano. In June 1886, however, it … tourists were drawn to the thermal regions of Rotorua and Tarawera. A stellar attraction was the Pink and White …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… While ferrying tourists across Lake Tarawera to visit Rotomahana’s famous Pink and White … of 10 June, the domed mountains of Wāhanga, Ruawāhia and Tarawera split apart, spewing forth millions of tonnes of … the people of Tūhourangi could not return to their Tarawera homeland when it recovered in the early 1900s. …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… Lake Tarawera The largest of the lakes in the Okataina caldera, Lake Tarawera was formed about 5,000 years ago when drainage to … huts, stranded articles of furniture – casualties of Mount Tarawera’s awful day of volcanic wrath. Like a grey ghost … Lake Tarawera district …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… guides became household names. But after the eruption of Mt Tarawera destroyed or submerged the Pink and White Terraces, …
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… into the Awaiti and Orini distributaries, into which the Tarawera and Whakatāne rivers also flowed. Now it reaches the sea 12 km west of Whakatāne. The Tarawera River rises on the slopes of Tarawera volcano and hugged the western edge of the swamp …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… in the volatile land, they have seen its active volcanoes – Tarawera, Rangitoto, Taranaki (Egmont), Tongariro, …
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… hall at Te Wairoa. When the violent volcanic eruption at Mt Tarawera and Rotomahana occurred during the early hours of … slab hut deep in the forest on Makatiti hill, north of Lake Tarawera. The four safely emerged when the volcanic storm … and Tūhourangi settlements in the vicinity of Lakes Tarawera and Rotomahana, and the three Warbrick brothers …
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… (Mt Egmont) has not erupted in the past 250 years. 1886 Tarawera eruption The most explosive and destructive eruption in the last 200 years was on Mt Tarawera (1,111 metres) near Rotorua in 1886. Between 108 …
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Part of story: Mountains
… best-known writer, and her travelling companions camped at Tarawera Hot Springs. ‘We swam … & when we came out each … like velvet.’ 1 The next day they visited Waipunga Falls. Tarawera Tarawera, 80 km from Napier on State Highway 5, is at the …
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Part of story: Hawke’s Bay places
… moved down the coast to the mouth of what is now the Tarawera River at Matatā. The original name of the Tarawera River was Te Awa-a-te-Atua (river of the god), … Meanwhile the high priest Ngātoroirangi travelled up the Tarawera River to Lake Tarawera. He climbed Ruawāhia peak …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… the ‘line of fire’ from Mt Tongariro, through Tauhara and Tarawera mountains to Whakaari (White Island). The mountain … Plains and the Volcanic Plateau, not far from the Tarawera River where it passes Kawerau. Known to Māori as …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty places
… Ngātoroirangi headed east from Maketū. He then followed the Tarawera River, which he named Te Awa-a-te-atua (the river … of the gods), inland to Ruawāhia, the northern peak of Mt Tarawera. From there he crossed the Kāingaroa Plains and … Island), Moutohorā (Whale Island), the Rotorua lakes, Mt Tarawera, the Paeroa Range, Ōrākei Kōrako, Tokaanu, and …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… was chronicled by the Chinese and the Romans. The Tarawera eruption around 1314 CE covered the region with a … formed the upper Te Maari crater on Tongariro. In 1886 Mt Tarawera erupted, killing about 150 people and destroying or … is the area’s biggest lake at 80 square kilometres. Lakes Tarawera (41 square kilometres), Okataina, Okareka and …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… Tūhourangi abandoned their home at Rotoiti and moved to Tarawera. He also fought against Tūhoe at the battle of … Rangi in 1836. Te Keepa was probably born at Motutawa pā, Tarawera. According to the memorial at his burial place, he … In peaceful times Te Keepa lived at Te Wairoa, by Lake Tarawera, where he had a European-style house. His wife was …
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… Rangitūkehu was born in 1848 or 1849, probably near Lake Tarawera, where she was brought up as a puhi (a treasured … known whether Rangitōwhare lived with him or remained at Tarawera with her daughter. Maata was still a child when the … at Te Teko, Maata regularly visited her family at Tarawera. In the Rotorua district during the 1870s tourism …
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… of 40° Celsius. Fall from a wall The Bay of Plenty’s Tarawera Falls are unique in New Zealand in emerging from a solid rock face. The river rises in Lake Tarawera and then disappears into cooled lava tubes …
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Part of story: Waterfalls
… brother, was killed and the Tūhourangi people retreated to Tarawera, Ōhinemutu and areas south of Rotorua. The … Whakaue finally expelled Tūhourangi, banishing them to the Tarawera–Rotokākahi lakes district. Maketū A new enemy, Te …
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Part of story: Te Arawa
… It did not provide as much income as anticipated. Tarawera eruption In 1886 the Pink and White Terraces were obliterated or submerged when Mt Tarawera erupted. Many Tūhourangi moved to Whakarewarewa …
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Part of story: Te tāpoi Māori – Māori tourism
… rhyolite lava domes erupted within Rotorua caldera, and Mt Tarawera is a collection of lava domes that erupted around … in the last 10,000 years The Okataina caldera includes the Tarawera volcano which erupted most recently in 1886 and …
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Part of story: Volcanoes
… White Terraces at Lake Rotomahana before the eruption of Mt Tarawera in 1886, and later guided at Whakarewarewa. As … was to Hōri Taiāwhio, with whom she came to Te Wairoa, Lake Tarawera. There were three children of the second marriage. …
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