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    Rotorua (Māori: [ˌɾɔtɔˈɾʉa]) is a city in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is sited on the southern shores of Lake Rotorua, from...
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    The Rotorua Caldera is a large rhyolitic caldera that is filled by Lake Rotorua. It was formed by an eruption 240,000 years ago that produced extensive...
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    Lake Rotorua (Māori: Te Rotorua nui ā Kahumatamomoe) is the second largest lake in the North Island of New Zealand by surface area, and covers 79.8 km2...
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    The Rotorua Museum Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa is a local museum and art gallery in the Government Gardens near the centre of Rotorua, New Zealand. The...
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    The Rotorua Branch is a railway line from Putāruru to Rotorua, in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions of the North Island of New Zealand. Construction...
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  • The Rotorua Express was a passenger express train operated by the New Zealand Railways Department between Auckland and Rotorua. It operated from 1894 until...
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  • Refuge organisation of New Zealand. She was a councilor at large for the Rotorua District Council from 2011 to 2022. She previously stood as a candidate...
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    HMAT Shropshire (redirect from SS Rotorua)
    from Melbourne 11 May 1917 from Melbourne In 1923, the ship was renamed Rotorua for the New Zealand Shipping Company. On 11 December 1940, it became a...
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    Bom Gillies (category People from Rotorua)
    earthquake. Gillies attended St Mary’s Convent in Seddon St, Rotorua Primary and Rotorua High School. Gillies attempted twice to enlist in the Māori battalion...
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  • Tania Tapsell (category People from Rotorua)
    Zealand politician. She has served on the Rotorua Lakes District Council since 2013 and was elected mayor of Rotorua at the 2022 local elections. She is the...
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    Rotorua Lakes District or Rotorua District is a territorial authority district in the North Island of New Zealand. It has one urban area of significant...
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    April 2022, Coffey introduced the Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill on behalf of the Rotorua Lakes Council. The bill sought to...
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    Glenholme is a suburb of Rotorua in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. Glenholme covers 1.72 km2 (0.66 sq mi) and had an estimated...
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  • The region around the city of Rotorua, in New Zealand's North Island, contains several lakes which have a total area of about 250 square kilometres (97...
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    SS Rotorua was a New Zealand Shipping Company steam ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship that was built in Scotland in 1910 and sunk by a U-boat in...
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    Rotorua Airport (Māori: Taunga Rererangi o Rotorua) (IATA: ROT, ICAO: NZRO) is an airport in Rotorua, New Zealand. It is located on Te Ngae Road (SH30)...
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    the 11th-largest land area. The major population centres are Tauranga, Rotorua and Whakatāne. The Bay of Plenty is one of the fastest growing regions...
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    The 2022 Rotorua mayoral election took place on 8 October 2022 to determine the Mayor of Rotorua. Incumbent mayor Steve Chadwick did not run for re-election...
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    300 12 New Plymouth Taranaki 60,100 3 Wellington Wellington 214,200 13 Rotorua Bay of Plenty 58,800 4 Hamilton Waikato 192,000 14 Whangārei Northland...
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    Lake Rotorua is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) due west of Kaikōura in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand. A 2010 report showed that Lake...
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    Howard Morrison (category People from Rotorua)
    grew up in Rotorua and in Ruatahuna near Waikaremoana. He attended a "native school" in the Urewera before going to Te Aute College and Rotorua Boys' High...
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  • explored the North Island and named many places, including Lakes Rotoiti and Rotorua. He tricked the existing residents out of their land and settled at Ngonogtaha...
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  • Sunnybrook is a western suburb of Rotorua in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. Sunnybrook covers 2.09 km2 (0.81 sq mi) and had an...
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    Rotorua Boys' High School (RBHS) is a state school educating boys from Year 9 to Year 13. It is situated just outside the Rotorua CBD at the intersection...
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  • Rotorua Lakes High School, commonly known as Lakes High, or simply Lakes, is a state school educating boys and girls from Year 9 to Year 13. It is situated...
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    ancestry to the Arawa migration canoe (waka). The tribes are based in the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty areas and have a population of around 60,117 according...
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    stations carried 91ZM Auckland programming. Programming was extended to Rotorua in 1998 as 98ZM replacing local station Classic Rock 98.3FM, initially...
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  • Union Rotorua was a large ro-ro vessel operated on the trans Tasman route by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (USSCo). Along with her sister...
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    doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.025. Neich Roger, 2001. Carved Histories: Rotorua Ngati Tarawhai Woodcarving. Auckland: Auckland University Press, pp. 48–49...
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  • Christchurch Hamilton Napier-Hastings Tauranga Dunedin Palmerston North Nelson Rotorua New Plymouth Whangārei Invercargill Whanganui Gisborne The word city took...
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