Story: Historic volcanic activity

Vent, 1964

This is the largest in a line of vents that the 1964 eruption opened near Green Lake. It blasted a crater in a pumice cone that was formed in an earlier eruption, about 1650 AD.

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Eileen McSaveney, Carol Stewart and Graham Leonard, Historic volcanic activity – Raoul Island, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9849/vent-1964 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Eileen McSaveney, Carol Stewart and Graham Leonard, published 2 March 2009.