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A hot pool on the Artist's Palette. The lowest terrace at Orakei Korako is the jade-green Emerald Terrace, the largest of its kind in New Zealand since the presumed destruction of the famed Pink and White Terraces in the Mount Tarawera eruption of 1886. However, researchers recently rediscovered the Pink and White Terrace locations.
Frying Pan Lake. Frying Pan Lake (renamed Waimangu Cauldron in 1963 [1] though not widely used) is the world's largest hot spring. [2][3] It is located in the Echo Crater of the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley, New Zealand and its acidic water maintains a temperature of about 50 to 60 °C (122–140 °F). [1] The Lake covers 38,000 square metres ...
The hill is notable primarily for its unusually long name, which is of Māori origin; it is often shortened to Taumata for brevity. [2] It has gained a measure of fame as it is the longest place name found in any English-speaking country, and possibly the longest place name in the world, according to World Atlas. [3]
The Pokémon World Championships is an invite-only esports event organized by Play! Pokémon.It is held annually in August and features games from the Pokémon series such as the Pokémon video games, Pokémon Trading Card Game, Pokémon Go, Pokémon Unite and Pokkén Tournament (until its 2022 edition).
Waiotapu (Māori for "sacred waters") is an active geothermal area at the southern end of the Okataina Volcanic Centre, just north of the Reporoa caldera, in New Zealand 's Taupo Volcanic Zone. It is 27 kilometres south of Rotorua. [1] Due to dramatic geothermal conditions beneath the earth, the area has many hot springs noted for their ...
The four-kilometre (2.5 mi) stretch of the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley running from Southern Crater to the shores of Lake Rotomahana has been a hotspot of geothermal and hydrothermal activity since the 1886 Mount Tarawera eruption, and contains the three lake-filled craters Southern Crater, Echo Crater, and Inferno Crater, as well as the bush-clad Raupo Pond Crater, Fairy Crater and Black ...
Wolfe Glick (born December 6, 1995), [4] also known as Wolfey or WolfeyVGC, is an American competitive Pokémon player, streamer and YouTuber. He is the 2016 World Champion of the official Pokémon Video Game Championships (VGC) format, [5] and has won numerous other VGC competitions. Glick was also one of the first people to have completed a ...
The Māori word pounamu, also used in New Zealand English, refers to two main types of green stone valued for carving: nephrite jade, classified by Māori as kawakawa, kahurangi, īnanga, and other names depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of serpentine, known as tangiwai. The collective term pounamu is preferred, as the other ...