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Industry on White Island

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Industry on White Island

There have been a number of endeavours to take sulfur from White Island. This man is working at the extraction plant that operated on the island between 1923 and 1933.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Bay of Plenty places – Inshore islands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/5677/industry-on-white-island (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.