The Tarawera eruption of June 1306 and the peopling of …
2021-12-1 · 01/12/2021. The thin white band in the centre of the photograph is ash deposited by the Kaharoa eruption exposed in peat at Waihī Beach, Bay of Plenty. This post is about the Tarawera Kaharoa eruption, and shows that it happened in June 1306. But it is a long story, connecting places as far apart as Taiwan, Ecuador and the Antarctic Peninsula.