Richard Taylor, 1805–1873
Missionary and writer Richard Taylor wrote an account of the 1846 landslide at Waihī, Lake Taupō, in his 1855 book Te ika a Maui.
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Horonuku Te Heuheu Tūkino IV, ?–1888
Around 1845 Horonuku went to Pamotumotu, near Wharepuhunga, to stay with his grandmother, Rangiaho. While he was there his father (Ngāti Tūwharetoa chief Mananui), his mother and many of his family were killed in the village of Te Rapa in 1846 when a landslide swept through it. He returned to Lake Taupō and took the name Horonuku, which means landslide, in memory of his father’s death.
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Mananui Te Heuheu Tūkino II, ?–1846
Along with 54 other people, on 7 May 1846 Ngāti Tūwharetoa chief Mananui Te Heuheu was killed by a landslide on the southern shores of Lake Taupō. It overwhelmed the Māori village of Te Rapa in the Waimatia Valley at Waihī.
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