Tarawera, Lake (lake)
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
At Te Ariki, Lake Tarawera, 1884 - 1885
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.
Jets of steam. Lake bank, Tarawera NZ, 1929
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.
Wairoa Landing, Lake Tarawera, 1885
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).