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Buried Village of Te Wairoa

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Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Phone:
+64 7-362 8287

Hours:
Sunday9am - 5pm
Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


Te Wairoa is a deserted village located close to the shore of Lake Tarawera in New Zealand's North Island. It was a Māori and European settlement founded in 1848 by the Revd Seymour Mills Spencer where visitors would stay on their way to visit the Pink and White Terraces. The village was destroyed by the eruption of the volcano Mount Tarawera on June 10, 1886. 120 people died in the eruption, many of them in other villages closer to the volcano.The site of one of these villages was instrumental in the recent rediscovery of the Pink and White Terrace locations.The Buried Village is open to the public and shows the excavated ruins of the village, recovered relics on display in a museum and the history of the eruption. It is located 14 kilometres southeast of Rotorua on Tarawera Road. A Māori meeting house named Hinemihi which provided shelter to the people of Te Wairoa village during the eruption was relocated in 1892 to Clandon Park as an ornamental garden building and a souvenir of William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow.
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