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Charles Heaphy painted this watercolour of the volcanic cone and crater of Rangitoto, probably in the 1850s. Three men and a dog in the foreground indicate the scale. At the time the cone was bare of vegetation, largely because of fires lit by early European settlers.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: C-025-001
by Charles Heaphy
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