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Quest for the Pink and White Terraces

A Rex Bunn

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Description:This volume contains two books. Book I 'The PAWTL Project', is the account of the 2014 "PAWTL" Project [Pink and White Terraces Limited], which set out to drain a high lake and recover a lost "Eighth Wonder of the World" i.e. The 'Pink and White Terraces' in New Zealand. A new volcano growing under the lake forced the suspension of the project, as we were readying it to start work with siphons and Hero's Fountains on a giant scale. I applied for three Guinness World Records for my engineering designs to lower Lake Rotomahana by thirty meters and expose the (then presumed) drowned terraces). Book II, The Hochstetter Survey is set two years later when in February 2016, the author, (writing Book I as a bold, honorable failure... so PAWTL could at least benefit future Pink and White Terrace searchers); connected with Dr Sascha Nolden, curator of the Hochstetter Basel Collection, By serendipity, Dr Nolden possessed the unpublished, indeed unknown field diaries of Dr Ferdinand von Hochstetter, the eminent 19th century geologist, cartographer and artist. Dr Hochstetter had visited the world-famous Te Otukapuarangi and Te Tarata, (the correct, original Maori names for the Pink and White Terraces) in 1859 and recorded the best description of them.The Pink and White Terraces and the lake on which they stood, were the site of the 1886 Mt Tarawera volcanic eruption. The bed of Lake Rotomahana was blown over the surrounding country and a new lake formed in the volcano's crater. The new Lake Rotomahana is ten times the area and depth of the old. In the chaos after the eruption, the locations of the Pink and White Terraces could only be guessed at by search and rescue teams. The Pink and White Terraces were assumed lost in the eruption. Meanwhile the Hochstetter field diaries were stored in an archive by his descendants. They were not seen again until located by Dr Nolden in 2010 in Basel, that beautiful city on the River Rhine in Switzerland. (Please refer to Dr Nolden's four published books on their detection and recovery). The field diaries were brought back to New Zealand and sections written at Lake Rotomahana and the Pink and White Terraces, passed to me during my research. Because of the PAWTL project, I immediately saw the potential for the untranslated diaries to assist in our search for the lost Pink and White Terraces. We translated the argot of 19th century German, Te Reo (the New Zealand Maori language) and English language entries. I recognised the material contained a compass survey of Lake Rotomahana and the many unique geothermal features around it. These terraces, springs and geysers were what made the lake a favoured destination for well-heeled 19th century tourists from Europe and the Americas. After two months work, we deciphered the field survey and reverse-engineered it's content so it can be applied with modern mapping techniques. The next step was to overlay the doctor's 1859 survey map over the Google map of today's Lake Rotomahana. We can after 130 years finally see the locations for the long lost Pink and White Terraces. Instead of these locations being in the new lake (which meant they were blown skyward by the 1886 eruption), the Terrace locations lie on land and so likely survived the eruption. They are buried deep underground and so the Pink and White Terraces may still may not be recovered as we planned in 2014, i.e. to be reinstated as the premier tourist attraction in the Southern Hemisphere, as they were in the late 19th century. The Terrace locations lie too deeply under volcanic ash to be excavated, in my opinion. However, it is too early to make such a call. The Hochstetter survey and my derivation of it, will doubtless be replicated and any question about exposing the Pink and White Terraces canvassed with the traditional landowners and New Zealand regulatory bodies. Now at at last we can with confidence, say where these wonders of the old world lie today.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Quest for the Pink and White Terraces. To get started finding Quest for the Pink and White Terraces, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Alfred Rex Bunn

Release: 2016

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Description: This volume contains two books. Book I 'The PAWTL Project', is the account of the 2014 "PAWTL" Project [Pink and White Terraces Limited], which set out to drain a high lake and recover a lost "Eighth Wonder of the World" i.e. The 'Pink and White Terraces' in New Zealand. A new volcano growing under the lake forced the suspension of the project, as we were readying it to start work with siphons and Hero's Fountains on a giant scale. I applied for three Guinness World Records for my engineering designs to lower Lake Rotomahana by thirty meters and expose the (then presumed) drowned terraces). Book II, The Hochstetter Survey is set two years later when in February 2016, the author, (writing Book I as a bold, honorable failure... so PAWTL could at least benefit future Pink and White Terrace searchers); connected with Dr Sascha Nolden, curator of the Hochstetter Basel Collection, By serendipity, Dr Nolden possessed the unpublished, indeed unknown field diaries of Dr Ferdinand von Hochstetter, the eminent 19th century geologist, cartographer and artist. Dr Hochstetter had visited the world-famous Te Otukapuarangi and Te Tarata, (the correct, original Maori names for the Pink and White Terraces) in 1859 and recorded the best description of them.The Pink and White Terraces and the lake on which they stood, were the site of the 1886 Mt Tarawera volcanic eruption. The bed of Lake Rotomahana was blown over the surrounding country and a new lake formed in the volcano's crater. The new Lake Rotomahana is ten times the area and depth of the old. In the chaos after the eruption, the locations of the Pink and White Terraces could only be guessed at by search and rescue teams. The Pink and White Terraces were assumed lost in the eruption. Meanwhile the Hochstetter field diaries were stored in an archive by his descendants. They were not seen again until located by Dr Nolden in 2010 in Basel, that beautiful city on the River Rhine in Switzerland. (Please refer to Dr Nolden's four published books on their detection and recovery). The field diaries were brought back to New Zealand and sections written at Lake Rotomahana and the Pink and White Terraces, passed to me during my research. Because of the PAWTL project, I immediately saw the potential for the untranslated diaries to assist in our search for the lost Pink and White Terraces. We translated the argot of 19th century German, Te Reo (the New Zealand Maori language) and English language entries. I recognised the material contained a compass survey of Lake Rotomahana and the many unique geothermal features around it. These terraces, springs and geysers were what made the lake a favoured destination for well-heeled 19th century tourists from Europe and the Americas. After two months work, we deciphered the field survey and reverse-engineered it's content so it can be applied with modern mapping techniques. The next step was to overlay the doctor's 1859 survey map over the Google map of today's Lake Rotomahana. We can after 130 years finally see the locations for the long lost Pink and White Terraces. Instead of these locations being in the new lake (which meant they were blown skyward by the 1886 eruption), the Terrace locations lie on land and so likely survived the eruption. They are buried deep underground and so the Pink and White Terraces may still may not be recovered as we planned in 2014, i.e. to be reinstated as the premier tourist attraction in the Southern Hemisphere, as they were in the late 19th century. The Terrace locations lie too deeply under volcanic ash to be excavated, in my opinion. However, it is too early to make such a call. The Hochstetter survey and my derivation of it, will doubtless be replicated and any question about exposing the Pink and White Terraces canvassed with the traditional landowners and New Zealand regulatory bodies. Now at at last we can with confidence, say where these wonders of the old world lie today.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Quest for the Pink and White Terraces. To get started finding Quest for the Pink and White Terraces, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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