located in the caldera of Taupō Volcano. The lake is the namesake of the town of Taupō, which sits on a bay in the lake's northeastern shore. With a...
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edge of Lake Taupō, which is the largest freshwater lake in New Zealand. Taupō was constituted as a borough in 1953. It has been the seat of Taupō District...
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Lake Taupō, in the centre of New Zealand's North Island, fills the caldera of the Taupō Volcano, a large rhyolitic supervolcano. This huge volcano has...
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(0.31 in) per year at Taupō. The zone is named after Lake Taupō, the flooded caldera of the largest volcano in the zone, the Taupō Volcano and contains...
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population is largely located in the two main centres, Taupō and Tūrangi. The district is governed by Taupō District Council. The vast majority of the district...
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Tongariro River system and flowing through Lake Taupō, New Zealand's largest lake. It then drains Taupō at the lake's northeastern edge, creates the Huka Falls...
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Oruanui eruption (category Lake Taupō)
and the Taupō Volcano had been for over 100,000 years mainly located under a larger lake than the present Lake Taupō called Lake Huka.: 6 Lake Huka was...
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North Island Volcanic Plateau (category Taupō Volcanic Zone)
west from the Central Taupō Volcanic Zone, centred on the huge active supervolcanic caldera of Lake Taupō, now the largest lake in New Zealand. This last...
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of the Taupō Volcano about 25,500 years ago, which was the largest eruption on earth in the past 70,000 years. Presently the smaller Lake Taupō, currently...
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Hatepe eruption (category Lake Taupō)
sometimes referred to as the Taupō eruption or Horomatangi Reef Unit Y eruption, is dated to 232 CE ± 10 and was Taupō Volcano's most recent major eruption...
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Ngāti Tūwharetoa (redirect from Ngāti Tuwharetoa ki Taupō)
central plateau of the North Island to the lands around Mount Tongariro and Lake Taupō. Tūwharetoa is the sixth largest iwi in New Zealand, with a population...
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Oceania – Lake Eyre when filled; the largest permanent (and freshwater) lake in Oceania is Lake Taupō. Europe – Lake Ladoga, followed by Lake Onega, both...
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Geography of New Zealand (section Rivers and lakes)
are the Huka Falls that drain Lake Taupō. Lake Taupō, located near the centre of the North Island, is the largest lake by surface area in the country...
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second-largest lake by surface area in New Zealand (after Lake Taupō) and the largest in the South Island. It is the second largest lake in Australasia...
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These articles lists the world's deepest lakes. This list contains all lakes whose maximum depth is reliably known to exceed 400 metres (1,300 ft) Geologically...
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Lake Rotoaira (sometimes written Lake Roto-aira) is a small lake to the south of Lake Taupō on the North Island Volcanic Plateau in New Zealand. It covers...
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Zealand) Kilauea (Hawaii, US) Lake Ohakuri (New Zealand) Lake Okataina (New Zealand) Lake Rotorua (New Zealand) Lake Taupō (New Zealand) Maroa (New Zealand)...
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Huka Falls (category Taupō District)
Huka Falls is a set of waterfalls on the Waikato River, which drains Lake Taupō in New Zealand. A few hundred metres upstream from Huka Falls, the Waikato...
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include a sculpture in cliffside stone of Ngātoro-i-rangi at Mine Bay, Lake Taupō, carved from 1976 to 1980, which has been recognised as important to the...
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Volcanism of New Zealand (section Taupō Volcanic Zone)
New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupō, fills the caldera formed in this eruption. Taupō's most recent major eruption, the Taupō or Hatepe eruption, took...
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Rangipo Desert and 25 kilometres to the south of the southern shore of Lake Taupō. The local Māori traditions state that the volcano was named by Ngātoro-i-rangi...
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Taupō Airport (Māori: Te Papa Waka Rererangi o Taupō, (IATA: TUO, ICAO: NZAP)) is a small airport 8 km (5.0 mi) to the south of Taupō township on the...
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Mount Tauhara (category Lake Taupō)
south. It is 6 kilometres (4 mi) east of the town of Taupō, next to the northeastern shore of Lake Taupō. Formed about 65,000 years ago, Mount Tauhara was...
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the taste of chocolate, and visiting Lake Taupō leads to the formation of knowledge by acquaintance of Lake Taupō. In these cases, the person forms non-inferential...
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Lake retention time (also called the residence time of lake water, or the water age or flushing time) is a calculated quantity expressing the mean time...
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Tūrangi (category Taupō District)
as a small servicing centre for the exotic forest plantations south of Lake Taupō and for tourists. It is well known for its trout fishing and calls itself...
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Mount Tongariro (redirect from Blue Lake (Waikato))
compound volcano in the Taupō Volcanic Zone of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 20 km (12 mi) to the southwest of Lake Taupō, and is the northernmost...
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A recursive island or lake, also known as a nested island or lake, is an island or a lake that lies within a lake or an island. For the purposes of defining...
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events that contributes to a global cataclysm. Volcano, lake, and caldera locations in the Taupō Volcanic Zone Volcanoes portal Global catastrophic risk –...
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North Island (section Lakes and rivers)
Hawke Bay Ninety Mile Beach North Taranaki Bight South Taranaki Bight Lake Taupō Waikato River Whanganui River Coromandel Peninsula Northland Peninsula...
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