Story: Volcanic Plateau region

Ngāuruhoe eruption, around 1949 (1st of 2)

Ngāuruhoe eruption, around 1949

A man stands beside his parked car on the Desert Road, watching Mt Ngāuruhoe erupt, in the late 1940s. The subdued profile of Mt Tongariro can be seen to the right.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 35mm-00709-D; F
Photograph by Bruce Valentine Davis

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Malcolm McKinnon, 'Volcanic Plateau region - Overview', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/15126/ngauruhoe-eruption-around-1949 (accessed 26 April 2024)

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, updated 1 May 2015