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Mt Ngāuruhoe

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Mt Ngāuruhoe

In this 1970s tourist poster, the perfect cone of Mt Ngāuruhoe rises out of a stark landscape. The Rangipō Desert (foreground), with its low-growing shrubs, is another distinctive feature of Tongariro National Park, which contains diverse landforms and vegetation.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1979-01

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Nancy Swarbrick, National parks – Tongariro National Park, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/14435/mt-ngauruhoe (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.