Mount Tarawera

#136 among destinations in New Zealand

Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano

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Mount Tarawera is a volcano on the North Island of New Zealand. 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. This eruption was one of New Zealand's largest historical eruptions, and killed an estimated 120 people. The fissures run for about 17 kilometres northeast-southwest. ()

Alternative names: Last eruption: 1886Elevation: 3645 ftCoordinates: 38°13'0"S, 176°31'1"E

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Bay of PlentyNew Zealand

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Mount Tarawera – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Tarawera Falls, Lake Rotomahana, Lake Tarawera, Lake Rerewhakaaitu.

3.7 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Tarawera Falls, Kawerau
95 min walk • 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 11,000 years ago.
5.2 miSW
Large wildlife refuge with black swans
Lake Rotomahana
133 min walk • Lake Rotomahana is an 800-hectare lake in northern New Zealand, located 20 kilometres to the south-east of Rotorua. It is immediately south-west of the dormant volcano Mount Tarawera, and its geography was substantially altered by a major 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
4.8 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lake Tarawera
123 min walk • Lake Tarawera is the largest of a series of lakes which surround the volcano Mount Tarawera in the North Island of New Zealand. Like the mountain, it lies within the Okataina caldera. It is located 18 kilometres to the east of Rotorua, and beneath the peaks of the Tarawera massif i.e. Wahanga, Ruawahia, Tarawera and Koa.
5.5 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lake Rerewhakaaitu
141 min walk • Lake Rerewhakaaitu is a small, shallow lake in northern New Zealand, located 30 kilometres to the east of Rotorua. It is immediately south of the active volcano Mount Tarawera, and the geography was substantially altered by a major eruption in 1886.

Mount Tarawera

Facts and practical information

Mount Tarawera plan & book

Mount Tarawera – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Tarawera Falls, Kawerau

Lake Rotomahana

Lake Tarawera

Lake Rerewhakaaitu