| RCS/Y3089A contains: |
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| 1 |
Bay of Islands, Victoria [sic] where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed by the native chiefs |
| 2 |
Poverty Bay - Waipawa Valley from the head of the Bay |
| 3 |
Mercury Bay - where Captain Cook took the transit of Mercury |
| 4 |
Thames Gold Fields - Hunt's Claim or Shotover |
| 5 |
Rotomahana or Hot Lake District - Kanapanapa, or Boiling Mud Lake |
| 6 |
Christchurch - Government Building looking west, Canterbury |
| 7 |
Hokianga - Phormian Tenax - or flax rope-making |
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New Zealand Scenery. c.1870
| Title |
Rotomahana or Hot Lake District - Kanapanapa, or Boiling Mud Lake |
| Reference |
Y3089A/5 |
| Covering Dates |
–1875 |
| Extent and Medium |
Fair condition, some fading in from edges. |
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| Content and context |
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254 x 195 mm. A view showing the mud lake, dotted with craters of mud and with steam rising from the hillside behind. In a reproduction of this print in Hochstetter (1875), the steam rising from the hills has been retouched to make it more visible:
'The bottom of the ravine consists chiefly of mud in a fluid state ... farther on are numerous small mud cones, from two to five feet in height, some of which, like miniature volcanoes, throw up hot mud from their craters, with a deadened, rumbling sound'.
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| Further information |
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Indexed
This print appears as an autotype reproduction in Hochstetter, Ferdinand Christian von (1875), Rotomahana; and the boiling springs of New Zealand, London, plate VII.
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| Index Terms |
| New Zealand |
| North Island |
| Oceania |
| No further on-line information. |
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