Source: GNS Science
A feature is that it shows the likely locations of the once-famed Pink and White Terraces, which were largely destroyed in the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
Local government and iwi groups have given the map â produced as a colourful wall poster â the thumbs up.
It is the first new bathymetric map of the lake in 40 years and represents nearly a decade of data gathering by GNS Science and its American partners.
Rotomahana map compilers Jenny Black and Cornel de Ronde of GNS Science. It is the first new bathymetric map of the lake in 40 years and shows many features not seen on earlier maps.
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How the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted cigarette smoking rates in the Bay
15 Mar, 2021 06:00 PM
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The number of people who smoke cigarettes in the Bay of Plenty is still decreasing but a doctor says the Covid-19 pandemic has acted as a handbrake. It comes after the revelation more than a quarter of the 500,000 Kiwis who smoke said their cigarette intake increased during alert level 4 last year.
Tauranga s Fifth Avenue Family Practice had 1.2 per cent of the practice s entire clientele give up smoking in the year to March 2020, with 727 then-current smokers.
In the 12 months since, the total number of smokers has dropped 719, a reduction of 0.3 per cent.
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