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Tarawera Mountain
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Tarawera Mountain (tä'räwâr`ə), volcanic peak, 3,646 ft (1,111 m) high, on the North Island, New Zealand, in Rotorua Rotorua , city (1996 pop. 52,953), central North Island, New Zealand. It is a popular tourist area with nearby lakes and hot springs. The area is also important for timber and agriculture.
..... Click the link for more information. . Its eruption in 1886 destroyed villages and unique silica terraces, transformed local terrain, and temporarily drained Lake Rotomahana.
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During the late nineteenth century, the area around Mount Tarawera was known for its high-spouting geysers and hot springs.
The night a mountain blew its top by Jarrow, Gail / Highlights for Children
Multi-coloured silica terraces, geysers, mud pools, boiling lakes and the massive crater of Mount Tarawera, which erupted Mount Ruapehu, feature in Tongariro National Park.
View Zealand; Country is Antiopodean sightseers paradise by Rudman, James / Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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