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Kōrero: National parks

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

by Philip Temple

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

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

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.