Mount Tongariro
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Key facts
- Elevation
- 1,978 m (6,490 ft)
- Rock age
- 275,000 years
- Mountain type
- Complex volcano
- Volcanic zone
- Taupō Volcanic Zone
- Last eruption
- 21 November 2012 13:50
- Easiest route
- Tongariro Alpine Crossing
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- New Zealand
- Located in
- Ruapehu District
- Continent
- Zealandia
- Elevation
- 1978
- Image
- Tongariro from the air.jpg
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- Mount Tongariro
- Commons category
- Mount Tongariro
- volcano observatory
- GNS Science
- mountain range
- North Island Volcanic Plateau
- located in protected area
- Tongariro National Park
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Tongariro (/ˈtɒŋɡərɪroʊ/; Māori: [tɔŋaɾiɾɔ]) is a 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 of the three active volcanoes that dominate the landscape of the central North Island.
Geology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Tongariro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.