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The Tongariro River is New Zealand's most fished river, [4] and is a drawcard for anglers the world over, who come to the Tongariro to fish for spawning rainbow trout and brown trout, which run up the river from the lake to spawn over the colder winter months. Approximately 75% of the trout in the Tongariro are rainbow trout, and 25% are brown ...
Water from the Moawhango Tunnel and the Waihohonu Stream flows into the Rangipo Dam which is built on the Tongariro River. [ 5 ] : 232 To the west of Rangipō, originating on the slopes of Mt Ngauruhoe, the Waihohonu Stream flows into a concrete gravity dam (intake structure) 15 metres (49 ft) high and 32 metres (105 ft) long.
An old lahar flow is visible from the approach road to Whakapapa ski field. On Christmas Eve 1953 a sudden lahar at night on Mt Ruapehu knocked out the rail bridge at Tangiwai, causing six carriages of the Wellington-Auckland express to plunge into the Whangaehu River, killing 151 people in New Zealand's worst railway disaster. [3]
The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second. The estimated global total for all rivers is 1.2 × 10 6 m 3 /s (43 million cu ft/s), [ 1 ] of which the Amazon would be approximately 18%.
Considerably further up-river than the other named pools, close to the Waikato Falls. Big Bend Pool 39°02′30″S 175°49′38″E / 39.04167°S 175.82722°E / -39.04167; 175
Also rising on Ruapehu are the Wahianoa River, Whangaehu River and Mangawhero River. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] To the west the Whanganui River and its tributary the Mangatepōpō Stream rise on Mount Tongariro, flowing eventually into the Whanganui National Park , [ 66 ] [ 67 ] [ 68 ] and the Tāwhitikuri Stream rises in the park and flows into the ...
It is fed by the Mangaio Stream, boosted by tributaries diverted from the slopes of Mt Ruapehu, and by the Moawhango River. Water is taken from the lake for the Tongariro Power Scheme, feeding the Tongariro River via the Moawhango Tunnel, although some water is released to continue down the Moawhango River nearby the settlement of Moawhango ...
Mount Tongariro (/ ˈ t ɒ ŋ ɡ ə r ɪr oʊ /; Māori: [tɔŋaɾiɾɔ]) 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.