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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. Twenty-two people died, either in the explosion or from injuries ...
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. The island covers an area of approximately 325 ha (800 acres), [ 3 ...
A U.S. honeymoon couple who survived severe burns when New Zealand’s White Island volcano erupted in 2019 are listed as the first witnesses to testify in a trial of tourism industry operators ...
100 or more deaths. Air New Zealand Flight 901 in 1979. Napier Town Hall following the earthquake. Illustration of the HMS Orpheus wreck. Christchurch Cathedral following the earthquake. Tangiwai memorial plaque. Illustration of the SS Tararua wreck. SS Wairarapa wreck. Illustration of the Mount Tarawera eruption.
Tour operators and a company which owns the New Zealand island where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people and wounded many others have been fined $1.6 million (NZ$2.6 million), and ordered to pay ...
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Mount Tarawera is a volcano on the North Island of New Zealand within the older but volcanically productive Ōkataina Caldera. 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. While the 1886 eruption was basaltic, study has ...
The White Island volcano is one of New Zealand’s most active. The White Island volcano’s last fatal eruption was in 1914, when it killed 12 sulphur miners. There was a short-lived eruption in ...