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New Zealand Famous Volcanoes The New Zealand area is characterised by both a high density of active volcanoes and a high frequency of eruptions. Volcanic activity in New Zealand occurs in six areas (see figure below), five in the North Island and one offshore in the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand's volcanoes are not randomly scattered, but are grouped into areas of more intensive and long-lived activity, whose position (and the composition of the lavas erupted) can be related to the large-scale movement of the tectonic plates in the New Zealand region. Most New Zealand volcanoes in the last 1.6 million years has occurred in the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ). The zone is an elongate area that extends from White Island to Ruapehu. The Taupo Volcanic Zone is extremely active on a world scale: it includes three frequently active cone volcanoes (Ruapehu, Tongariro/Ngauruhoe, White Island), and two of the most productive calderas in the world (Okataina and Taupo). Top
Famous New Zealand Volcanoes Mt Ruapehu from the WestLocation Central Plateau, North Island, New ZealandInformation New Zealand Volcanoes - Mt Ruapehu is the largest and highest volcano of New Zealand (about2800m). It lies in the Tongariro National Park where two other volcanoes, MtTongariro and Mt Ngauruhoe, are located. A road leads up to 2/3rd of theheight and from there it's a chairlift ride and three hours of steadyclimbing to the top. It can be done with a guided tour and isn't to hard if you are reasonably fit. Mt Ruapehu Crater LakeLocation Mt Ruapehu, Central Plateau, North Island, New ZealandInformation New Zealand Volcanoes - Mt Ruapehu has a summit plateau which consists of several craterscovered under a central glaciers. The active vent contains a crater lake. Isis about 400m wide, 600m deep and contains highly acidic water, up to 60Cwarm. The lake drains through an ice cave just off the tip of the wing. Thetemperature and colour changes all the time. The colour ranges from green tomuddy grey. White IslandLocation Bay of Plenty, 40km North Offshore Whakatane, North Island, New ZealandInformation New Zealand Volcanoes - White Island is New Zealands most active volcano. It usually just steamsalong like on the picture, but sometimes larger ash eruptions generate adark column over the island. It is privately owned, and you can get there byboat or helicopter. The white ship anchors near the place wherethe Sulphur Factory had been. Destroyed Sulphur Processing PlantLocation White Island, New ZealandInformation New Zealand Volcanoes - Nobody lives on White Island now, but at the beginning of the century,sulphur has been mined by a dozen of men who lived in a camp on the craterfloor. The raw material (spilling out of the broken left wall of thebuilding) was heated in large retorts and the refined sulphur was shipped tothe mainland - as fertilizer! A customer wrote that it was good for killingweeds in his driveway... Crater FloorLocation Crater Floor, White Island, New ZealandInformation New Zealand Volcanoes - White Island is shaped like a horseshoe. This is a view of the craterfloor looking from the building to the inner crater. White Island is veryactive. Though it normaly doesn't erupt lava, there are signs of volcanicactivity everywhere. Steaming hot earth and boiling pools filled with mudand water.Top
Famous New Zealand VolcanoesThe North Island produces enough boiling water and steam to fill all the jacuzzis and saunas in the galaxy--or at least Los Angeles! New Zealand Volcanoes 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. Central CraterLocation Central Crater, White Island, New ZealandInformation New Zealand Volcanoes - White Island has a central crater whose appearance is constantly alteredby minor and major eruption. Sometimes there are ash eruptions which form adark column over the island. There is always a cloud over White Island, butusually it is white and its shape and size varies with the volcanic activityand the weather (the colder, the more steam you see). Large Fumerole on Crater WallLocation Central Crater, White Island, New ZealandInformation New Zealand Volcanoes - This is an especially large fumerole on the inner wall of the centralcrater. Image the sound of a large roaring jet engine, and you get animpression of the noise it produces. New Zealand volcanoes Together with the steam, the smell offoul eggs (caused by sulphur) and because it's not the only fumerole in thecrater, a view in the crater is like looking in hell's kitchen. Crater LakeLocation Central Crater, White Island, New ZealandInformation New Zealand Volcanoes - At the bottom of the central crater some water has formed a small, hotand highly acidic lake. Steam usually blocks the view, but sometimes abreeze lifts the fog and grants a view of the lake. It sometimes disappearsbut returns after longer periods of rain. Don't go to near: The crater rimis very unstable imaging what would happen if you slide down into thewater... Noisy Nelly and MeLocation White Island, New ZealandInformation New Zealand Volcanoes - This large fumerole is called "Noisy Nelly". You can see it too on thepicture of the Crater Floor on the right side. The exhausted gasses arequite hot and make breathing difficult if you go to near. The pilot providedsome filter masks so we could protect our lungs a bit. It's a good idea toprotect your glasses and photografic lenses, too: The gasses are verycorrosive.On the west coast the dormant cone of New Zealand Volcanoes 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 volcanoes active within the last 2,000 years on the South Island, but you can see remains of the colossal twin volcanoes that formed Banks Peninsula, south of Christchurch. Then why not sit backand relax, and leave all the planning and arranging to the best Volcanoes New Zealand? Top
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