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Mount Tarawera Eruption

The story

Visiting Tourists stayed at the hotel Rotomahana before the eruption. The Tourists claimed to have seen a Maori War Canoe appear out of the mists of Lake Tarawera paddling slowly through the lake and disappeared when only half a mile from the tourist boat. A Maori Priest claimed it was a spirit Canoe that was warning of great calamity. As claimed, nine days later the volcano erupted...

On 10 of June, 1886 people were wakened. The ground was rumbling violently, and the sky was lit up by lighting flashes. Molten rocks were flung out of the volcano, landing on the ground with a hiss. At 2.00 rocky mud and ash fell from the sky with the rain, and people watching took refugee in the houses and whares of Te Wairoa. The hail of mud and hot ash struck the village. Houses were buried and the people fled from the village. When the survivors came out of various shelters, they saw the whole town was buried in a sea of mud.



The activity

Here is the song I made of the Mount Tarawera Eruption.

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