Ngāti Tūwharetoa is an iwi descended from Ngātoro-i-rangi, the priest who navigated the Arawa canoe to New Zealand. The Tūwharetoa region extends from Te Awa o te Atua at Matatā across the central plateau of the North Island to the lands around Mount Tongariro and Lake Taupō.
Eastern Lake Taupō, Tūrangi to Taupō
Ketetahi Springs
Western Taupō Steam and Hot Springs
Western Taupō looking north
Mount Tongariro is a compound volcano in the Taupō Volcanic Zone of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 20 km (12 mi) to the southwest of Lake Taupō, and is the northernmost of the three active volcanoes that dominate the landscape of the central North Island.
Mount Tongariro
Emerald Lakes from the summit of Red Crater
NASA satellite image of the August 2012 eruption, from Suomi NPP