According to the New Zealand Crown Research Institutes, it covered areas more than 100km away with of pyroclastic flow. Today, the Taupo super volcano remains active, and is now 800 years overdue ...

The Taupo volcano - which sits in NZ's biggest lake - exploded 1800 years ago, firing more than 100 cubic kilometres of material into the air, in what is the world's largest eruption in the last ...