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Tarawera, Lake (lake)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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At Te Ariki, Lake Tarawera, 1884 - 1885

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/1
Scope and Contents

146 x 201 mm A study of a Maori woman holding a baby wrapped in a blanket, and standing in front of a hut. Lake Tarewera lies in the hot spring district south of Lake Rotorua.

Dates: 1884 - 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Jets of steam. Lake bank, Tarawera NZ, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/63
Scope and Contents

59 x 74mm. A view showing clouds of steam rising from the shores of the lake, a phenomenon caused by steam percolating through cracks in the ground from hot underground streams.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Wairoa Landing, Lake Tarawera, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/8
Scope and Contents

198 x 144 mm. A view looking down on the lake from a wooded hillside. Wairoa is situated near the coast at Hawke Bay, and Lake Tarawara was the scene of the sighting of the ‘Phantom Canoe’ which to the Maoris presaged the volcanic eruption of 1886 (see Y308A131 and New Zealand postcards 100-111).

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).