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Earthquake-generated tsunami

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Earthquake-generated tsunami

This is a newspaper account of the land uplift and tsunami caused by the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake. It was published in the New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Strait Guardian, 7 February 1855.

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Reference: New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, 7 February 1855

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Willem de Lange rāua ko Eileen McSaveney, Tsunamis – New Zealand’s tsunami history, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/6216/earthquake-generated-tsunami (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Willem de Lange rāua ko Eileen McSaveney, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.