Story: Volcanic Plateau region

More links and websites

• Mercury

  This website includes information about the power stations on the Waikato River.

• New Zealand Geothermal Association

  The New Zealand Geothermal Association’s site has material about all New Zealand’s geothermal areas, including those in the Taupō Volcanic Zone.

• Great Lake Taupo

  The Taupō District Council’s website has information for residents, ratepayers and visitors to the area.

• Rotorua Lakes Council

  The website of the Rotorua District Council.

• Te Arawa Lakes Trust

  The website of the Te Arawa Lakes Trust has information about the lakes and Te Arawa’s Treaty settlement.

• Volcanic Plateau memorials

  This page on NZ History offers a clickable map so users can see images and details of major memorials on the Volcanic Plateau.

More suggestions and sources

• Cooper, Barbara. The remotest interior: a history of Taupo. Tauranga: Moana, 1989.
• Grace, John Te H. Tuwharetoa: the history of the Maori people of the Taupo district. Auckland: Reed, 1992 (originally published 1959).
• Stafford, D. M. The founding years in Rotorua: a history of events to 1900. Auckland and Rotorua: Ray Richards and Rotorua District Council, 1986.
• Stafford, D. M. The new century in Rotorua: a history of events from 1900. Auckland and Rotorua: Ray Richards and Rotorua District Council, 1988.
• Stafford, D. M. Te Arawa: a history of the Arawa people. Auckland: Reed, 2002.
• Stafford, Don, Roger Steele and Joan Boyd, eds. Rotorua 1880–1980. Rotorua: Rotorua and District Historical Society, 1980.