Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8775
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View across Lake Rotorua
Date
1886
Creator
Charles Spencer (1854 - 1933, New Zealander) , Photographer
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 137mm
width (print): 202mm
width (print): 202mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Panoramic view across Lake Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand. The overlay sketches in the crater lake, with Mokoia Island. An inscription notes a "steam column from Rotimahana 11,500ft 30 miles distant".
Object history
From an album of photographs describing the eruption of Mount Tarawera on the central North Island of New Zealand on 10 June 1886. Presented to the Royal Society by James Hector on 17 July 1886, with additional photographs on 22 September 1886.
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