Taupō Volcano

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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 produced two of the world's most powerful eruptions in geologically recent times. The volcano is in the Taupō Volcanic Zone within the Taupō Rift, a region of rift volcanic activity that extends from Ruapehu in the south, through the Taupō and Rotorua districts, to Whakaari / White Island, in the Bay of Plenty.

Read on Wikipedia · Image BayofPlentyA2002296.jpg: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC derivative work: Chris.urs-o (talk), Public domain