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Whakaari / White Island ([faˈkaːɾi], Māori: Te Puia Whakaari, lit. "the dramatic volcano" [2]), also known as White Island or Whakaari, is an active andesite stratovolcano situated 48 km (30 mi) from the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, in the Bay of Plenty.
Whakaari / White Island in the Bay of Plenty. New Zealand consists of more than six hundred islands, mainly remnants of a larger land mass now beneath the sea. [1] New Zealand is the sixth-largest island country, and the third-largest located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. The following is a list of islands of New Zealand.
On 9 December 2019, Whakaari / White Island, an active stratovolcano island in New Zealand's northeastern Bay of Plenty region, explosively erupted. [3] The island was a popular tourist destination, known for its volcanic activity, and 47 people were on the island at the time.
New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island (Te Waipounamu)—and over 600 smaller islands.
Qikiqtaaluk (Foxe Basin), formerly White Island, Nunavut, Canada; Mau Mau Island, also known as White Island, in the US state of New York; Isles of Shoals, also known as White and Seavey Islands, in the US state of New Hampshire White Island State Historic Site; White Island Pond, Massachusetts, U.S. White Island Shores, Massachusetts, U.S.
Aotearoa (Māori: [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) [1] is the Māori-language name for New Zealand.The name was originally used by Māori in reference only to the North Island, with the whole country being referred to as Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu – where Te Ika-a-Māui means North Island, and Te Waipounamu means South Island. [2]
On 5 October 2011, the MV Rena ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef in the bay causing a large oil spill, [11] [12] described as New Zealand's worst ever environmental disaster. [13] A volcanic eruption occurred on Whakaari / White Island at 14:11 on 9 December 2019, which resulted in twenty fatalities and twenty-seven injuries, most suffering ...
Mayor Island / Tūhua is the northern-most shield volcano adjacent to the New Zealand coast, and is believed to have been active in the last 1000 years. [14] It is formed from rhyolite magma. [ 15 ] It has a quite complex eruptive history but only with one definite significant Plinian eruption . [ 14 ]