Lake Rotomahana

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Lake Rotomahana

and

Lake Tarawera

 

Lake Tarawera in relation to Lake Rotomahana

Lake Rotomahana is a small lake in northern New Zealand, located 25 kilometers to the east of Rotorua. It is immediately southwest of the dormant volcano Mount Tarawera, and its geography was substantially altered by a major eruption in 1886. Along with the mountain, it lies within the Okataina caldera.

 

dormant volcano Mount Tarawera
major eruption in 1886

 

 

video of an eruption

 

The Pink and White Terraces were a natural wonder located on the shores of the lake. They were considered to be the eighth wonder of the natural world and were New Zealand's most famous tourist attraction during the mid 19th century.

 

Lake Tarawera

One pervasive legend of the 1886 eruption is that of the phantom canoe of Rotomahana. Nine days before the eruption, a boat full of tourists returning from the Terraces saw what appeared to be a war canoe approach their boat, only to disappear several hundred meters from them.

 

visits to the Pink and White Terraces

Though skeptics maintained that it was a freak reflection seen on the mist, tribal elders at Te Wairoa claimed that it was a waka wairua (spirit canoe) and was a portent of doom.

 

 


It has been suggested that the waka was actually a freak wave, caused by seismic activity below the lake, but locals still believe that a future eruption will be signalled by the reappearance of the canoe.

Text from Wikipedia

 

 

Lake Tarawera

 

 


Cruise on Lake Rotomahana

 

cruise boat

 

black swans

 

 

Lake Rotomahana

 

steaming cliffs

 

geothermal field

 

 

geospring

video of a hot spring

 

algae sustained by the warm water

 

bubble pool

 

glory spring

 

 

 

 

 

site of the former pink terrace

 

 

video of the thermal action

 

 

 

 


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