Longreads"To local tribes, the scientists’ battle recalled pākehā fighting over access to Indigenous land—one of the oldest stories in New Zealand’s history."
Sean Williams for Now Voyager: https://nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/beneath-the-long-white-cloud
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Did New Zealand’s Pink and White Terraces Survive? The Search for the Eighth Wonder of the World
In 1886, a volcanic eruption buried the Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand. Now, rival scientists, Māori tribes, and a government under pressure are racing to determine whether the terraces survived beneath Lake Tarawera.