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Kōrero: Bay of Plenty places

Whakaari (White Island)

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Whakaari (White Island)

Steam and smoke emerge from the crater of White Island. One of New Zealand’s most active volcanoes, it lies at the north end of the volcanic plateau’s ‘line of fire’. A debris flow in 1914 killed 10 people and an eruption in 2019 killed 22.

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Reference: 28769

by Lloyd Homer

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm McKinnon, Bay of Plenty places – Inshore islands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5672/whakaari-white-island (accessed 24 June 2026).

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