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| Tonyi Tamaki visits Blue Lake in Rotorua |
Tonyi Tamaki has returned at home. She was born in Rotorua although she lives in Auckland because of her job. Tonyi has explained the most interesting stories about Rotorua to her friends who are going to spend some days visiting this city and its surroundings.
During the travel to Rotorua, The Grandma has read a new chapter of Rosemary Border's Ghost Stories and she has studied a new lesson of her First Certificate Language Practice manual (Grammar 7).
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Rotorua, in Māori Te Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe, The second great lake of Kahumatamomoe, is a city on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua from which the city takes its name, located in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island.
It is the seat of the Rotorua District, a territorial authority encompassing Rotorua and several other nearby towns. The majority of the Rotorua District is in the Bay of Plenty Region, but a sizeable southern section and a small western section are in the Waikato Region.
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| Joseph de Ca'th Lon visits Lake Tarawera in Rotorua |
Rotorua is in the heart of the North Island, 60 kilometres south of Tauranga, 80 km north of Taupo, 105 km east of Hamilton, and 230 km southeast of the nation's most populous city, Auckland.
Rotorua is a major destination for both domestic and international tourists; the tourism industry is by far the largest industry in the district. It is known for its geothermal activity, and features geysers, notably the Pohutu Geyser at Whakarewarewa, and hot mud pools. This thermal activity is sourced to the Rotorua caldera, on which the town lies. Rotorua is home to the Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology.
The Lakes of Rotorua are a collection of many lakes surrounding Rotorua.
More information: Rotorua Lakes Council
The name Rotorua comes from Māori, the full name for the city and lake is Te Rotorua-nui-a-Kahumatamomoe. Roto means lake and rua means two or in this case second, Rotorua thus meaning Second lake. Kahumatamomoe was the uncle of the Māori chief Ihenga, the ancestral explorer of the Te Arawa. It was the second major lake the chief discovered, and he dedicated it to his uncle. It is the largest of a multitude of lakes found to the northeast, all connected with the Rotorua Caldera and nearby Mount Tarawera. The name can also mean the equally appropriate Crater lake.
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| Visiting Blue Lake in Rotorua |
The area was initially settled by Māori of the Te Arawa Iwi in the 14th century. During the early 1820s Ngapuhi lead by chief Hongi Hika launced a series of raids into the Bay of Plenty as a part of the Musket Wars, in 1823 a Ngapuhi raiding party lead by Hongi Hika attacked Te Arawa at their Pa, Fortified settlement, on Mokoia Island defeating them.
The first European in the area was probably Phillip Tapsell who was trading from the Bay of Plenty coast at Maketu from 1828. He later married into Te Arawa and became highly regarded by them. Missionaries Henry Williams and Thomas Chapman visited in 1831 and Chapman and his wife established a mission at Te Koutu in 1835. This was abandoned within a year but Chapman returned in 1838 and established a second mission at Mokoia Island.
More information: Rotorua-New Zealand
The lakeshore was a prominent site of skirmishes during the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s. A special town district was created in the 1883, to promote Rotorua's potential as a spa destination. The town was connected to Auckland with the opening of the Rotorua Branch railway and commencement of the Rotorua Express train in 1894, resulting in the rapid growth of the town and tourism from this time forward. Rotorua was established as a borough in 1922, elected its first mayor in 1923, and declared a city in 1962 before becoming a District in 1979.
The Rotorua region has 17 lakes, known collectively as the Lakes of Rotorua. Fishing, waterskiing, swimming and other water activities are popular in summer. The lakes are also used for event venues and as a departure and landing point for float planes.
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New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive
through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place.
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