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Story: Hot springs, mud pools and geysers

Ōrākei Kōrako geyser

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Ōrākei Kōrako geyser

This photograph was taken on 24 January 1961. It captures one of the last eruptions of the Ōrākei Kōrako geyser before it was drowned by the damming of the Waikato River.

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Carol Stewart, Hot springs, mud pools and geysers – Protecting geothermal features, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6511/orakei-korako-geyser (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Carol Stewart, published 2 March 2009.