Although deforestation has been an issue in New Zealand, forests cover 38 to 43% of the land area. At 3,487 square kilometers (1,346 sq mi), Lake Taupo is the largest lake, which is a caldera of a volcano on the North Island. Waikato River is the longest river which flows for abo...
Type: Wetland Description: swamp in New Zealand Also known as: Taupo Swamp and Taupo mirePlaces of InterestPlimmerton railway station Railway station Photo: AxonsArachnida, CC BY-SA 3.0. Plimmerton railway station is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway in Plimmerton, Porirua, New Zealand...
Taupō, also written Taupo, is a town on the northern shore of Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake, in the central North Island. It is a popular tourist destination due to its lake, boating, trout fishing, geothermal attractions, waterfalls, outdoor activities and proximity to the North...
As it straddles the Pacific and Indo-Australian tectonic plates, New Zealand is very mountainous, with lots of volcanic peaks dotted here and there. The Taupo Volcanic Zone on the North Island, for example, boasts one of the most active supervolcanoes on Earth. Many steaming craters and craggy...
Huka Falls is an awe-inspiring natural wonder on the Waikato River near Taupo on New Zealand’s North Island. It features a narrow chasm where the Waikato River, the longest river in New Zealand, is compressed to a mere 15-meter-wide gorge. This causes a roaring rush of water to plummet...
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Lake Taupo, the largest lake in New Zealand, on the volcanic plateau of central North Island. It has a surface area of 234 square miles and a depth of about 525 feet. It covers the remains of several volcanic craters, notably those of the dormant Taupo v
At its maximum extent in 1991 the lake flooded an area of 6.7 square kilometers and impounded an estimated 75 million cubic meters of water. Approximately 15 to 25 percent of the materials remaining in the new Marella pyroclastic fan will need to be remobilized before lahars aggrade the ...
The volcanoes with the longest known breaks between eruptions have erupted the largest volumes of material. These are the so-called "super volcanoes", such as those at lakes Taupo (New Zealand) and Toba (Sumatra, Indonesia). There are no observations recorded by humans for these enormous events...