New Zealand's Pink and White Terraces were spectacular geologic formations that attracted tourists, artists, and photographers during the mid-1800s. This painting by John Clarke Hoyte shows the Pink Terraces in the foreground, tucked next to a hook-shaped spit of land. Visitors have just arrived by canoe. The White Terraces are in the background next to a prominent outcrop known as the Pinnacle. Looming behind is massive Mount Tarawera, the volcano whose 1886 eruption was thought to have destroyed the terraces. (John Clarke Hoyte: Pink and White Terraces, Lake Rotomahana, and Mount Tarawera. Watercolor and gouache on paper, ca. 1870s. Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago)[back]
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