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Sulphur covered terraces - the smell in the area is distinctly sulphur!
At Whakarewarewa.
The Lady Knox Geyser was found in the late 1800s by a group of New Zealand prison inmates. They were on a work patrol planting in the nearby Kaingaroa Forest.
While washing their clothes in a hot pool the soap reacted violently with the chemicals in the water and the clothes were thrown some distance away into the bush. The geyser was official christened in 1903 by the daughter of the NZ Governor General, Lady Knox and she herself threw soap into the geyser. Every 48 hours the geyser would erupt by itself and this went on for 30 years. From 1933 though has been soaped daily to instigate the eruption.
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