Story: Conservation – a history
Carl Leonard, a guide at Whakarewarewa, examines the site of the extinct Papakura geyser in 1986. The geyser last erupted in 1979. Growing concern about the loss of geysers during these years eventually led to the closing of all bores for domestic hot water within 1.5 kilometres of Whakarewarewa’s Pōhutu geyser.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1986/5200/20
Photograph by Merv Griffiths
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
