Talk:Whakaari / White Island

message: There seems to be contradictory information about the number of miners killed in the 1914 eruption.  Googling for Whakaari 1914 turns up claims for either 10 (, ), 11 (, ) or 12 (, ) deaths.  Does anyone know of an authoritative reference that could settle the matter?  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 18:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The NZ Geographic article I just referenced in our article says 10 were killed in the 1914 landslide event, and that two other miners were killed beforehand in separate incidents after the mining started again in 1913. (One died of burns when a large retort exploded due to corrosion; the other disappeared and only his boots were ever found.) Perhaps the range from 10 to 12 in other sources reflects confusion over when these two died. -- Avenue 11:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The most detailed account I have found so far is here. It lists all ten of the victims by name, and gives dates for the main events around the eruption. It doesn't have a big organisation's name behind it, but it seems believable to me. I will change the main article accordingly. -- Avenue 08:45, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

text: A further note: the author credited at the link above is Kevin Boon, also the author of a number of books for young people on NZ history topics, including The eruption on White Island, Wellington, N.Z. : Kotuku Publishing, c1994. -- Avenue (talk) 07:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of 1914 casualties 

message: Intro says; most active cone volcano. 
None of the other volcanoes’ articles says which is most active, nor even if they are cone volcanoes. Not cited at List of volcanoes in New Zealand or Volcanology of New Zealand either. 
So is it the most active volcano, too?  MBG02 (talk) 10:25, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most active? 

message: Maybe no one on Wikipedia remembers 2004, but the appearance of Dino the Dinosaur in front of one of the White Island webcams (on an uninhabited, restricted island) was avidly watched and one of the more clever internet pranks of the time.  It’s the first introduction to this area of the world for many in NA and Europe.  Sad that it’s missing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.130.77.141 (talk) 00:03, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where’s Dino? 

message: This is a information about the Island, 
The information to share is that in The Chronicles of Narnia more specifically  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is that in its movie Whakari, was used for Dragon Island and should be recognized because it is a film location for the  particular movie.  Largo96 (talk) 20:30, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Popular Culture, add this category  

message: Article intro says the island is off the east coast of North Island. Google Maps and my atlas clearly show it's off the north coast. 70.73.90.119 (talk) 14:25, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Look again. It is in the bay, but it is east of the Northland Peninsula. Vici Vidi (talk) 08:11, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: East Coast?

message: The page currently states that it is. But tThe citation doesn't go to a direct page, only the homepage of BirdLife International. I couldn't find the 2012 document that the citation refers to. I also found this page in the site - http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/search - for searching a list of Important Bird Areas. While it gives 165 results for New Zealand, neither Whakaari nor White Island appear in that list. HenryCrun15 (talk) 20:28, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Most islands off of NZ are nesting sites for endemic species, often because they don't have introduced European species that poach on the nesting sites. However, in this case the frequent eruptions may also wipe out the flightless endemic birds. Needs a source. --Vici Vidi (talk) 08:08, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Whakaari/White Island an Important Bird Area? 

message: I have e just watched a documentary on the 2019 eruption and it states the island is now closed to visitors. I couldn't edit the page myself so thought I'd add it here 95.150.146.148 (talk) 00:19, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The island is closed