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Story: Manawatū and Horowhenua places

Lake Horowhenua

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Lake Horowhenua

C. D. Barraud painted this image of Lake Horowhenua and the Tararua Range, possibly in the 1880s, after much of the forest had been felled from around the lake.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-029-009

by Charles Decimus Barraud

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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How to cite this page

Malcolm McKinnon, Manawatū and Horowhenua places – Horowhenua, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/9457/lake-horowhenua (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2009, updated 22 April 2015.