Ruakōpū Bay
Ruakōpū Bay is a bay in Auckland Region, North Island.- Type: Bay
- Description: bay of Lake Tarawera, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Ruakopu Bay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Tarawera and Tarawera Falls.
Mount Tarawera
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Tarawera is a volcano on the North Island of New Zealand within the older but volcanically productive Ōkataina Caldera. Located 24 kilometres southeast of Rotorua, it consists of a series of rhyolitic lava domes that were fissured down the middle by an explosive basaltic eruption in 1886.
Tarawera Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Pseudopanax, CC BY 3.0.
Tarawera Falls is a 65 m high waterfall on the Tarawera River in the Bay of Plenty region in New Zealand's North Island. The Tarawera River flows out of Lake Tarawera and across a rhyolitic lava flow that erupted from Mt Tarawera about 14,000 years ago.
Ruakōpū Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-38.1831° or 38° 10′ 59″ southLongitude
176.4753° or 176° 28′ 31″ eastOpen location code
4VHRRF8G+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 5694123693OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayWikidata ID
Q93960773
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Satellite Map
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ruakōkopu and Lake Te Rotoroniu.
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