Other infomation

• When the eruption of Mt Tarawera had died down and the rescue party started the clean up, the residents of the villages couldn't  return to their homes because the government claimed the land.

• The eruption was heard clearly as far away as Blenheim and the effects of the ash in the air were observed as far south as Christchurch. In Auckland the sound of the eruption and the flashing sky was thought by some to be an attack by Russian warships

• On 1 June 1886, a party of tourists claimed to have seen a Māori war canoe appear out of the mists on Lake Tarawera. It was being paddled by Māori in traditional dress, and disappeared when only half a mile from the tourist boat.