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197 x 135 mm A view from above looking down into the steaming mouth of one of the many geysers in the area with Lake Rotomahana visible in the background.

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196 x 141 mm A view of the Pink Terrace from Lake Rotomahana. For a contemporary description of the terraces see Y308B/99 and Y308A/131. For pictures of the area before and after it was destroyed in the eruption of 1886 see New Zealand Postcards 100-111.

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201 x 143 mm. A view of the Pink Terrace cascade with the lake in the foreground and steam rising from the geyser behind. For other pictures and descriptions of these formations, and the eruptions that destroyed them, see Y308B09-104, Y308A131 and New Zealand Postcards 100-111.

Scope and Contents 240 x 191 mm. A view showing part of the Pink Terrace Cascade. ‘Its terraces, formed of a peculiar pink-coloured siliceous deposit, extend by gentle descents, one below the other, down to the edge of the lake… ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ by D.L. Mundy and F. Von Hochstetter (Sampson Low, London 1875). The terraces were destroyed in the volcanic eruption of 1886, for more details of which, and a photograph of the collapsed terraces, see 308A/131. See also New Zealand...

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240 x 192 mm. A view showing the lower terraces of the White Terrace Cascade (or ‘Te Tarata’ – tattooed Rock) with a Maori sitting in one of the pools in the saucer-like formations. Just above this terrace (not in the picture) is a geyser, the chemically impregnated water from which formed the terraces. Like the Pink Terrace, it too was destroyed in the eruption of 1886.

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245 x 180 mm. A view showing the boiling geyser at the summit of the White Terrace with a Maori sitting on a rock above the geyser and steam rising from the surface, ‘Rotomahana and the Boiling Springs of New Zealand’ by D.L. Mundy and F. Von Hochstetter (Sampson Low, London, 1875).

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242 x 171 mm. Another view of the White Terrace, looking along the formation with the steaming geyser and hillside beyond.

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190 x 148 mm. (Oval print) A view of the top of one of the terrace formations (exact location unidentified) with a rock protruding from the crystal-like material.

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200 x 143 mm. A view of part of Lake Rotomahana with steam rising from the land around the lake, and looking north-east toward Mount Tarawera in the distance.

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199 x 143 mm. A view looking into the steaming mouth of the crater with Lake Rotomahana in the background.

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198 x 147 mm. A view of the cup-like formations on the White Terrace filled with water from the geyser above. For a contemporary description of this otherworldly formation, and information about its destruction, see Y308B99-104, Y308A131, and New Zealand Postcards 100-111.