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Volcanoes of New Zealand
The North Island produces enough boiling water and steam to fill all the jacuzzis and saunas in the galaxy--or at least Los Angeles!
Volcanic and geothermal areas smolder along the Taupo Volcanic Zone from the Bay of Plenty to the central North Island. Three volcanoes dominate this area: Mt. Ruapehu and Mt. Ngauruhoe, both active, and dormant Mt. Tongariro. Mt. Ruapehu erupted in September 1995, rocketing ash, steam, and car-sized rocks into the sky from the volcano's Crater Lake.
About 50 km offshore from Whakatane in the Bay of Plenty lies White Island, an active volcano often obscured by clouds of steam. Discovered and named by Captain Cook in 1769, White Island erupts ash intermittently to this day.
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On the west coast the dormant cone of Mt. Egmont/Taranaki towers over the Taranaki Volcanic Zone, and farther north, both Auckland and the Bay of Islands are classified as separate volcanic zones.
The waters of Lake Taupo lie in an enormous deep crater in the center of the North Island--the area has a violent history of volcanic eruptions, though the last one was nearly 19 centuries ago.
You'll find no volcano's active within the last 2,000 years on the South Island, but you can see remains of the colossal twin volcano's that formed Banks Peninsula, south of Christchurch.
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