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Rotorua Geothermal Area, North Island 

There were just two more stops on this Smithsonian Journeys trip to Australia and New Zealand and both were on the North Island.. I had not previously been to the North Island so I was curious to see just how different it was from the South.Leaving Queenstown we got a great view of Lake Wakatipu. At 50 miles long, it is New Zealand's longest lake and one of the deepest at 1,250 feet. The mountains around the lake (center) are known as The Remarkables.These are the Canterbury Plains south of [...]

Photo needed for my book: Blue Lake, near Washington Pass 

Does anyone have a high resolution photo of Blue Lake, near Washington Pass? I’m on the quest for what I hope is the final missing image for Geology Underfoot in Western Washington. If you can provide me with a jpg or tiff, at least 1 MB, drop me a note.  tuckerd   @  geol  . wwu.   

Ngauruhoe's Far Side 

Climbing Ngauruhoe from the South is well off the tourist route, and involves scrambling up unstable blocks of lava for about 700 vertical metres up the face of the cone.I chose to go up more or less up the centre of the view you can see here, and it took me about an hour and a half of steady plodding to the to. The crater of Ngauruhoe was last erupting in from 1973 to 1975, during which time it occasionally threw out blocks of lava to a distance of about 3 kilometres. If you click on the image [...]