Story: National parks
In this 1970s tourist poster, the perfect cone of Mt Ngāuruhoe rises out of a stark landscape. The Rangipō Desert (foreground), with its low-growing shrubs, is another distinctive feature of Tongariro National Park, which contains diverse landforms and vegetation.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1979-01
Photograph by Philip Temple
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.