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Kōrero: Volcanic Plateau region

Lake Taupō and volcanic peaks

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Lake Taupō and volcanic peaks

Charles Barraud painted this watercolour, ‘Looking across Lake Taupo with Mounts Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu in the distance’, in 1874. By that time adventurous travellers were finding their way into the central North Island. Motutaiko Island is in the middle distance, below the rounded shape of Pīhanga.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: C-007-005

by Charles Decimus Barraud

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm McKinnon, Volcanic Plateau region – Overview, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/15130/lake-taupo-and-volcanic-peaks (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.