Lake Tūtira is a body of water in north-eastern

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in New Zealand. Much of the area was surveyed by

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, who farmed 60,000 acres (240 km²) surrounding the lake. Guthrie-Smith, a naturalist, published the popular ''Tutira: the story of a New Zealand sheep station'' in 1921. Today, a camp is run at the site of his homestead. A small settlement,

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, is located near the lake, on State Highway 2 30 kilometres north of Whirinaki. Sedimentary cores from the lake were used to demonstrate that the landslides mobilising sediments for

transport Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, an ...

into the lake occur in frequency and magnitude according to a

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. Trout fishing is permitted as a stream flows into its northern reaches. For centuries Māori seasonally lived by Lake Tūtira and it is possible to see the remains of six pa sites. The Tutira Walkway, ascends to the Table Mountain trig station for views over Hawke's Bay and takes about five hours to complete. Land Air Water Aotearoa describes the water quality as "poor", specifically showing

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lake conditions. The lake suffers from periodic

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Geological history

The lake contains a high-resolution record of the sedimentation since its formation about 6,500 years ago. It has a small

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area, whose dominant

erosion Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location where it is deposited. Erosion is distin ...

mechanism is landsliding; as a result of this, infrequent, large storms account for the bulk of the sedimentary depositional volume;

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is a particularly important recent example.

References

External links

Tutira Country Park
at the

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