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Kōrero: Te Arawa

Ngā tohu whenua o Tarawera

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Tarawera landmarks

I te pahūtanga o Tarawera i ngā haora moata o te 10 o Hune 1886, e moe ana ngā tūruhi ki ngā hōtera o Te Wairoa, ā okioki ana ngā iwi i roto i o rātou whare. Tōpū, neke atu i te 100 ngā tāngata i mate i te hūnga o Tarawera. Koinei te hūnga nui ake atu i te taenga mai o te Pākehā. E kitea tonu ana i te whakaahua nei te kino o te hūnga i runga i te mata o te whenua, e 17 tau i muri o te pahūtanga. Kei runga e whakaatuhia ana te maunga o Tarawera, ko Rotomahana me ngā piere o Waimangu. Nō ngā tau tōmua o te tau rua mano, kua tipu anō mai ngā uru rākau.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-5584-33

by Henry Winkelmann

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

Paul Tapsell, Te Arawa – The Tarawera eruption, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/4183/nga-tohu-whenua-o-tarawera (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Tapsell, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.