Edward Williams’s 1865 watercolour shows the distinctive submerged tōtara and rimu sub-fossil stumps in the Waitōtara River estuary. They may have been submerged by post-glacial rising sea levels, or after tectonic movements which would have led to land subsiding.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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B-045-038/039
Ink and watercolour sketch by Edward Arthur Williams
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