THE GOLDEN FLEECE TERRACE AT ORAKEIKORAKO—With the filling of the Ohakuri hydro-electric power dam on the Waikato river, some of the silica terraces, geysers, and boiling pools at Orakeikorako (“The Place of Adorning”) will be flooded. Fortunately, the dazzling Golden Fleece terrace, which is 125ft across, is above the estimated water level of the dam and should be preserved. It more closely resembles the famous Pink and White terraces, destroyed in the Tarawera eruption of 1886, than any others in New Zealand, and is the biggest of its kind in the world. The Orakeikorako thermal area is 34 miles southwards by road from Rotorua.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29435, 10 February 1961, Page 19
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104THE GOLDEN FLEECE TERRACE AT ORAKEIKORAKO—With the filling of the Ohakuri hydro-electric power dam on the Waikato river, some of the silica terraces, geysers, and boiling pools at Orakeikorako (“The Place of Adorning”) will be flooded. Fortunately, the dazzling Golden Fleece terrace, which is 125ft across, is above the estimated water level of the dam and should be preserved. It more closely resembles the famous Pink and White terraces, destroyed in the Tarawera eruption of 1886, than any others in New Zealand, and is the biggest of its kind in the world. The Orakeikorako thermal area is 34 miles southwards by road from Rotorua. Press, Volume C, Issue 29435, 10 February 1961, Page 19
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