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The Motutere Top 10 Holiday Park straddles State Highway 1 on the southern shores of Lake Taupō. It’s a popular spot, with ...
Lake Taupo-area scientists in New Zealand raised the alert level of a volcano sitting beneath the country’s largest lake on Tuesday after detecting 700 small earthquakes below the surface since May.
Cruising the great Lake Taupo, I must be honest, I've lived in Taupo for nearly 6 years and I've never been on the lake! There's no excuse really, it's one of those things that was always going to ...
Stretching 623sq km wide and 160m deep with several magma chambers submerged at its base, Lake Taupo isn't only New Zealand's largest lake; it's also an incredibly active geothermal hotspot.
Kayaking Kiwi Lake Taupo has erupted at least 26 times in the past 26,000 years - two of them deemed some of the largest the world has experienced in recent geological times. If that's an ...
The volcanic alert level has been raised at Lake Taupo in New Zealand. Picture: Barekiwi / Destination Great Lake Taupo Earthquakes located by GeoNet in the Lake Taupō area from January 1 to ...
THERE'S much more to New Zealand's Lake Taupo than the traditional fishing and boating experiences, and a group of Maori tourism operators are leading the way in showing just how enjoyable ...
Lake Taupo deputy harbourmaster Toni Maulder (left) and harbourmaster Heath Cairns. They both grew up messing about on the water, and now they're doing it for a job.
In a statement, geological agency GeoNet said it had detected almost 700 small earthquakes below Lake Taupo, the caldera created by the giant volcano, and had raised the volcanic alert level to 1 ...