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	Pink and White Terraces - Tarawera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These terraces were wider at the top, about 73 metres, and then narrowed as they fell to measure about 23 metres down on the shore of the lake.
		The salmon pink colour was due to the presence of amorphus antimony sulphides in the sinter.
		Next a yellowish white is reflected from the snowy reefs which overhang the gulf, and then the great unfathomed chasm itself, with its deep azure blue.
	www.anheizen.com /terraces?content=pink.php (724 words)

	Pink and White Terraces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pink and White Terraces were a natural wonder located at Lake Rotomahana near Rotorua in New Zealand.
		They were considered to be the eighth wonder of the natural world and were New Zealand's most famous tourist attraction.
		The terraces were destroyed when Mount Tarawera, five kilometres to the north, erupted at 3:00 am on the June 10, 1886.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pink_and_White_Terraces (149 words)

	New Zealand Disasters: Volcanoes: Mt Tarawera - Christchurch City Libraries
		One of the most popular tourist attractions in New Zealand was the Pink and White Terraces, which lay at the foot of Mount Tarawera, in the heart of the volcanic plateau of the North Island.
		Te Tarata, the White Terraces, fell 30 metres from a geyser that produced the white silica of the terraces.
		Tarawera: the destruction of the Pink and White Terraces, Wellington, 1985
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Childrens/NZDisasters/MtTarawera.asp (1008 words)

	ROTORUA - LoveToKnow Article on ROTORUA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It lies in the midst of a remarkable volcanic district generally known as the Hot Spring district, or fancifully as the Wonderland, which covers an area of 660 sq.
		from N.E. to S.W. from White Island, an active volcanic cone in the Bay of Plenty to the mountains of Tongariro, Ngaruhoe and Ruapehu in the interior of the island, SW.
		S.E. of Rotorua) is noted for the eruption of June 1886, which changed the outline of several lakes, destroyed the famous Pink and White terraces on the adjoining lake Tarawera, and converted a region of great beauty into a desolate wilderness.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROTORUA.htm (456 words)

	SINTER - LoveToKnow Article on SINTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Siliceous sinter is a deposit of opaline or amorphous silica from hot springs and geysers, occurring as an incrustation around the springs, and sometimes forming conical mounds or terraces.
		The pink and white sinter-terraces of New Zealand were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886.
		Mr W. Weed on studying the deposition of sinter in the Yellowstone National Park found that the colloidal silica was largely due to the action of algae and other forms of vegetation in the thermal waters (pth Ann.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SINTER.htm (683 words)

	OneDayHikes.com - Travel Features
		A massive volcanic eruption devastates a village and destroys the world-renowned White and Pink Terraces.
		In 1886, Te Wairoa was a flourishing village, buoyed by significant tourist interest in the White and Pink Terraces at Lake Rotomahana, a few miles further south.
		The "eighth wonder of the world", these stunning sinter terraces containing natural hot pools were slowly formed over many hundred of years from the silicate of lime deposits in the water.
	www.onedayhikes.com /TravelFeatures.asp?TravelFeaturesid=2 (734 words)

	Tarawera's night of terror
		The white terraces were the larger, covering some three hectares (eight acres) and beginning in an enormous boiling cauldron 243 metres (about 800 feet) above lake level.
		The colouration of the pink terraces went from pure white at the bottom through various shades of pink, which deepened towards the top.
		One scientific visitor to the terraces in 1868 found 'many insects, such as beetles and dragon-flies, as well as some feathers of a lark, and the whole body of a hawk' encrusted in the sinter.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v18/i1/tarawera.asp (1648 words)

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		While guide Sophia Hinerangi and her boat of tourists were returning from visiting the Pink and White Terraces, a spectral war canoe had appeared.
		The famed Pink and White Terraces, a giant fanlike silica formation which glittered in pink, white and turquoise as water ran down the terraces into Lake Rotomahana below, were shattered into splinters and totally disappeared from the face of the Earth.
		Tuhoto was taken to Rotorua and cared for by the pakeha (white man) where they insisted on cutting the 100 year old man’s matted hair.
	www.angelfire.com /pe/brianw/tarawera.html (406 words)

	Pink and White organ cd
		This piece was inspired by the famous Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand which were destroyed by the eruption of Mt Tarawera in 1886.
		The Pink and White Terraces were huge naturally occuring staircases, created by deposits of silica in crystallised form over many centuries.
		Pink and White was commissioned by Martin Setchell with funding from Creative New Zealand, and was composed especially for the new Christchurch Town Hall Rieger organ.
	www.nzorgan.com /shop/paw-info.htm (617 words)

	Lost Wonders
		The 'jewel in the crown' for the New Zealand tourism industry of the day was the spectacular cascade of silica deposits on the flanks of Mount Tarawera, known as the Pink and White Terraces.
		Lauded as ‘the eighth wonder of the world’, the terraces were tragically buried by the 1886 Tarawera eruption.
		One of the tales they pass on is the legend of the phantom waka, the mysterious ghost canoe recognised as a portent of doom.
	www.newzealand.com /travel/about-nz/nature/in-the-shadow-of-the-volcanoes/facing-the-ring-of-fire/the-8th-wonder-of-the-world.cfm (224 words)

	Solitaire Lodge, Rotorua, New Zealand - Artist: Charles BLOMFIELD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Charles Blomfield is known to many as the painter of the Pink and White Terraces of New Zealand's thermal region, the extraordinary formations of siliceous rock once hailed as the Eighth Wonder of the World.
		The destruction of these terraces in the 1886 eruption of nearby Mount Tarawera led to the sudden rise in importance of all representations of them; and Blomfield's terrace paintings, because they were among the most beautiful ever done, and were perhaps the most faithful to their subject, shot to instant fame.
		Yet although the Pink and White Terraces proved to be Blomfield's favourite subjects, they were by no means his only ones.
	www.solitairelodge.co.nz /home/profile_cblomfield.htm (436 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Psycho Chicken Crosses the Road
		The mountain used to be home to one of the natural wonders of the world and, arguably, New Zealand's first tourist attraction; the pink and white terraces.
		It took with it the village, over 150 people and the pink and white terraces they'd all come to see, buried under rock forever.
		Alas there is now no trace whatsoever of the terraces that had brought the tourists and village there in the first place; only a few rare paintings and very early photographs begin to show today's visitors the splendour of what they'd have seen if only they'd come 120 years earlier.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A3480185 (844 words)

	The celebrated Mr Valentine by Sally Blundell \| New Zealand Listener
		New Zealand's pink and white terraces were regarded as the eighth wonder of the world – and have come back to life, thanks to the hand of one of the 19th century's greatest photographers.
		From there, in the company of Auckland publisher Charles Chapman, he went to the Pink and White Terraces, a wispy, wide-eyed man carrying a tripod, a large camera – probably a Meagher, says Hall – and a box of dry-plate-glass negatives.
		From his rented darkroom in Nelson, Valentine worked on his contact prints of the Terraces, capturing the monolithic strength of the formations, the fine honeycomb detail of the silica in images that would later appear in books and personal travel albums.
	www.listener.co.nz /printable,1769.sm (788 words)

	Rotorua Museum, New Zealand - Things to See & Do - The Pink & White Terraces of Rotomahana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Te Tarata, (The Tattooed Rock) or the White Terrace was the larger.
		The terraces of Otukapuarangi, (Fountain of the Clouded Sky) or the Pink Terraces, were smaller and lower.
		In 1885 Charles Blomfield the 'artist of the terraces' pitched camp on the edge of Lake Rotomahana and worked to capture images on canvas.
	www.rotoruanz.com /rotorua_museum/pinkwhite.htm (266 words)

	Wairakei Terraces -Maori Cultural Experience
		Wairakei Terraces are a manmade creation of cascading silica terraces in blues, pinks and whites, fed by the steaming multi-hued waters of the Alum lakes that in turn have been created by a spectacular manmade geyser of superheated waters.
		These Wairakei Terraces are attributed to the original ones that once existed here at Wairakei, and are reminiscent of the magnificent pink and white terraces that were destroyed in 1886 when Mt Tarawera suddenly erupted splitting the mountain in two and covering what surely was one of the great wonders of the world.
		A guided or self-governed walk through the Wairakei Terraces Walkway will entertain, educate and leave the visitor in awe of natures capacity to be manipulated yet still retain a naturalness and beauty that is pleasing to the eye as well as the senses.
	www.wairakeiterraces.co.nz /wairakei.htm (452 words)

	New Zealand Ora - Garden of Well Being
		The garden was dominated by a replica of the Pink and White Terraces, the North Island's "eighth natural wonder of the world" which was destroyed in an volcanic eruption in 1886.
		Victorian tourists used to flock to the 7-acre silica terraces, believing that bathing in the naturally hot spring water held medicinal properties.
		The Chelsea Garden thermal terraces were made by Richard Taylor, whose special effects in Lord of the Rings have won him four Oscars, and they certainly begged you to climb on in (if only!).
	www.mooseyscountrygarden.com /chelsea-flower-show/new-zealand-garden-show.html (926 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The pink and white terraces, which were situated at the foot of Mount Tarawea, were regarded as one of the Wonders of the World.
		The white terraces consisted of a series of vast curved silica basins filled with beautiful turquoise blue water.
		The pink terraces rose more steeply, like a giant staircase, and they were the most delicate shade of pink.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~glaive/nz/pages/tarawera.htm (1181 words)

	Travel - New Zealand - New Zealand - Just follow your nose - escape.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But, with a little help from downriggers – huge balls of lead dragging the lines to a depth of 30m – I eventually caught two silver trout, both under 30cm, which, in line with the fishing licence I bought on board for $15, were underweight and had to be thrown back.
		Visitors to Wairakei Terraces are greeted in the common, known as the marae, where an official Maori welcoming, or powhiri, ceremony is held, complete with villagers in warrior gear doing the huka.
		Gavin told me that before the terraces were built, the overflow water was pumped into the Waikato River, the longest river in New Zealand, which rises in Mt Ruapehu, and generally flows northwest for 350km through Lake Taupo before it enters the Tasman Sea near Auckland.
	escape.news.com.au /story/0,9142,17040284-38615,00.html (1405 words)

	Rotorua - Sulphur City
		One of the most attractive is the primrose terrace, the largest sinter terraces in the New Zealand since the destruction of the Pink and White terraces in 1886 with the eruption of Mount Tarawera.
		White water rafting looked a little tame so I went for white water sledging, with Kaitiaki adventures.
		All in all the white water sledging was one of the most thrilling activities I have done.
	www.travelblog.org /Australasia/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Plenty/Rotorua/blog-82.html (770 words)

	The New Zealand Site
		Queen Victoria's son, Prince Alfred, set the trend in 1870 when he visited the Pink and White Terraces, bathed in hot springs for their health-giving properties, and enjoyed Maori feasts and cultural performances.
		It's pretty much continued that way ever since, in spite of the 1886 eruption of Mt Tarawera that blew apart the renowned Pink and White Terraces and buried whole villages in metres of ash and mud.
		The sinter terraces that drain the run-off are huge, but only a faint echo of what the Pink and White Terraces must have been like.
	www.thenewzealandsite.com /article/Rotorua (2058 words)

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		By 1880, so many travelers and roaming colonials were passing through the district that Maori landowners became concerned, and this prompted the government to consider some of the broader implications associated with the rapid growth of tourists, such as the need for a permanent town base to accommodate this proliferation.
		Although the Pink and White Terraces were destroyed in the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera, the legacy of the hospitality (manaakitanga) of the local Maori has survived.
		In the late nineteenth century, during the era of the Pink and White Terraces, Maori had direct influence on tourism in the region.
	cullin.org /cbt/index.cfm?section=chapter&number=11 (3076 words)

	Rotorua and Taupo: thermal activity on the North Island New Zealand - Travel Writing from Travel Insights
		In the 1880s people came to the area to view and bathe in the fabulous pink and white terraces.
		Then, slowly, a column of raw white superheated steam rose up into the air and the ground beneath our feet beginning to rumble and tremble as boiling water shuddered through the bedrock.
		Spectacular white cliffs drop down to the waters far below and I watched the inevitable jumpers bungy off the edge for a while, feeling for them as they shuffled, legs bound together, out over the precipice.
	www.travelinsights.org /printer/writing/travelogues/dan/taupo_35.html (1314 words)

	The Factual Account of the Mt Tarawera Eruption
		In 1885 his photographs of Otukapuarangi and Te Tarata - the celebrated Pink and White Terraces - won him immediate acclaim.
		Following the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886 - and the loss of the Terraces - Valentine returned to the devastated region to complete a series that was unmatched for its quality and drama.
		Background into George Valentine's life and work, the famed Rotomahana Terraces, and events surrounding Tarawera's eruption are provided by a video and interpretive displays, together with curator Ken Hall's book which accompanies the exhibition.
	www.anheizen.com /?content=valentine.php (229 words)

	Pink and White Terraces -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The terraces were destroyed when (Click link for more info and facts about Mount Tarawera) Mount Tarawera, five kilometres to the north, erupted at 3:00 am on the June 10, 1886.
		The (A mountain formed by volcanic material) volcano belched out hot mud, red hot boulders and immense clouds of fl ash.
		The lake, and several other nearby, were substantially altered in shape and area by the eruption.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/pink_and_white_terraces.htm (129 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The pink-and-white terraces near Rotorua were once described as the eighth natural wonder of the world.
		The terraces and the pools have been created using the leftover geo-thermal energy Contact Energy doesn't want and re-directing the hot healing waters flowing through a nearby stream.
		At the moment the terraces are more white than they are pink, but over time the colours will start to emerge, giving a new generation the chance to witness the sort of majesty originally created without any help from human beings.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,121593-1-5,00.html (166 words)

	The Buried Village : Rotorua History, Rotorua Historical Attraction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Few would have dreamed as the eighth wonder of the world - the fantastic Pink and White Terraces - sparkled in the moonlight, events deep in the ground were menacingly unfolding.
		It was abandoned during the land wars of the 1860's, then repopulated a few years later as the staging post to the Pink and White Terraces.
		The eruption destroyed the Terraces and buried Te Wairoa and two smaller villages under hot heavy ash and mud.
	www.tourism.net.nz /new-zealand/attractions/sightseeing-and-leisure/theme-and-leisure-parks/rotorua/buried-village (663 words)

	Bay of Plenty Region
		Sightseeing flights over White Island are a must with some flights also taking in the 3 volcanoes in the Tongariro National Park and Mt Tarawera.
		Mt Tarawera last erupted early this century totally destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces, which was nicknamed the 8th wonder of the natural world.
		The Bay of Plenty is one of the most scenic and diverse regions in New Zealand, and visitors to New Zealand have been known to spend most of their time here at the expense of seeing the rest of the country.
	www.virtualoceania.net /newzealand/regions/bayofplenty.shtml (385 words)

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