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Kōrero: Volcanic Plateau region

Whārangi 16. Hononga, rauemi nō waho

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

  • 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.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

  • 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.
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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm McKinnon, Volcanic Plateau region, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/story/16314/sources (accessed 10 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.