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Kōrero: Volcanic Plateau region

Rotorua marathon

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Rotorua marathon

First held in 1965 with 16 competitors, the Rotorua marathon is now the biggest in New Zealand, and has several thousand participants. A circuit of the lake is almost exactly the marathon distance of 42.2 kilometres.

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Rotorua Marathon

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Malcolm McKinnon, Volcanic Plateau region – The North Island’s playground, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15200/rotorua-marathon (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.