NASA image of the caldera. The town of Rotorua is south of the lake that fills much of the apparently circular caldera. The caldera is a more complex shape with areas of collapse and the Tikitere Graben at its outlet. Mount Tarawera is in the lower right corner south east of the caldera and it and the lakes to the east are features of the adjacent active Ōkataina Caldera. The eruption products are thickest towards the north east.

Downtown Rotorua, Lake Rotorua, and Mokoia Island

Approximate location and outlines (white) of the paired single event Rotorua and Ohakuri calderas with approximate known surrounding Mamaku (blue) and Ohakuri ignimbrites (yellow phase 1 and dark yellow phase 2). The relationship to the inactive southern portion (red dots) and currently active northern portion (red line) of the Horohoro Fault is shown. Relationships also shown to old Taupō Rift (light yellow shading), modern Taupō Rift (light red shading) and

Volcano, lake, and caldera locations in the Taupō Volcanic Zone

Oruanui eruption impact North Island in terms of approximate 10cm ash deposit (white shading) and approximate ignimbrite from pyroclastic flow (yellow shading). The central red area is the Oruanui caldera with surrounding collapse crater in lighter red. It is superimposed on present day New Zealand although at the time New Zealand land mass was larger, as sea level was much lower.

Hatepe eruption impact of a 10-cm ash deposit (white shading) and ignimbrite from pyroclastic flow (yellow shading). The collapse caldera is in light red. It is superimposed on the present day North Island.

Taupō Volcano is mainly under the large blue Lake Taupō seen from its north from low earth orbit with beyond to its south the smaller Lake Rotoaira, and the active stratovolcanoes of Tongariro and Ruapehu covered in this picture with snow.