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Story: Historic volcanic activity

Volcanoes of Tongariro National Park

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Volcanoes of Tongariro National Park

This southward-looking view of the volcanoes of Tongariro National Park shows the complex of craters, cones and lava flows of Mt Tongariro in the foreground. Mt Ngāuruhoe, the largest and most active cone of the Tongariro group, is in the centre. Ruapehu volcano is in the background.

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Eileen McSaveney, Carol Stewart and Graham Leonard, Historic volcanic activity – Tongariro and Ngāuruhoe, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6848/volcanoes-of-tongariro-national-park (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Eileen McSaveney, Carol Stewart and Graham Leonard, published 2 March 2009.