Taupō Volcano
Lake Taupō, in the centre of New Zealand's North Island, fills the caldera of the Taupō Volcano, a large rhyolitic supervolcano. This huge volcano has produced two of the world's most powerful eruptions in geologically recent times.
Photo: Pseudopanax, Public domain.- Type: Volcano
- Description: Caldera Volcano in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Taupo Volcano”, “Volcan Taupo”, and “Vulcano Taupo”
Taupō Volcano
- Category: landform
- Location: Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-38.7746° or 38° 46′ 29″ south
Longitude
175.904° or 175° 54′ 14″ east
Open location code
4VHQ6WG3+5H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Taupō Volcano” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بركان تابو”
- Asturian: “Taupō Volcano”
- Basque: “Taupō (sumendia)”
- Basque: “Taupō”
- Catalan: “volcà Taupo”
- Catalan: “Volcà Taupo”
- Czech: “Taupo”
- Finnish: “Taupo”
- Finnish: “Taupō”
- French: “Taupo”
- German: “Taupo”
- German: “Taupō”
- Hebrew: “טאופו (הר געש)”
- Indonesian: “Gunung berapi Taupo”
- Italian: “Taupo”
- Japanese: “タウポ火山”
- Korean: “타우포 화산”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taupo”
- Norwegian: “Taupo”
- Persian: “آتشفشان تائوپو”
- Russian: “Таупо”
- Slovenian: “Taupō (vulkan)”
- Slovenian: “Taupō”
- Spanish: “Volcán Taupo”
- Turkish: “Taupō Yanardağı”
- Ukrainian: “Таупо (вулкан)”
- Ukrainian: “Таупо”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Kinloch and Acacia Bay.
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