Kōrero: Hinerangi, Sophia

Sophia Hinerangi on the Terraces at Lake Rotomahana

Sophia Hinerangi on the Terraces at Lake Rotomahana

Sophia Hinerangi, better known as Guide Sophia, was the principal tourist guide of the famous Pink and White Terraces before they were destroyed or submerged in the 1886 eruption of Mt Tarawera.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Kirk Album Collection (PA1-q-138)
Reference: PA1-q-138-021
Photograph by George Dobson Valentine

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārangi:

Jenifer Curnow. 'Hinerangi, Sophia', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993, updated o Hūrae, 2015. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/2h37/hinerangi-sophia (accessed 5 May 2024)