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Kōrero: Waterfalls

Kerosene Creek

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Kerosene Creek

Volcanic activity has created a number of North Island waterfalls. A popular spot is the falls at Kerosene Creek, where bathers come to enjoy the hot water pouring over an old lava flow. Kerosene Creek is near Waiotapu, about 30 kilometres south of Rotorua.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1970/2089/16

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Waterfalls – Causes of waterfalls, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/11756/kerosene-creek (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.