However, a team including researchers from GNS Science, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Waikato University were mapping the lake floor when they discovered part of the Pink Terraces in February 2011.
В начале 2011 года группа исследователей из GNS Science, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory и Waikato University картировали дно озера и обнаружили остатки розовых террас.