Mount Ngauruhoe

The peak of Mount Ngauruhoe

Mount Ngauruhoe ( pronunciation: [ ŋauɾuhoe ] ) is an active volcano in New Zealand. The conical-shaped mountain is located in the Volcanic Plateau of the North Island and, with a height of 2291 meters the highest peak of the Tongariro massif dar. Although the Ngauruhoe is usually regarded as a separate mountain, it is geologically only the youngest, but tallest of further cones of Tongariro.

The approximately 25 kilometers away from the southern shore of Lake Taupo mountain is bordered to the south by Ruapehu, the highest peak in the North Island, and the north by the Tongariro. In the east, the barren area of Rangipo Desert adjoins.

The Ngauruhoe is an extremely young stratovolcano. His first eruption probably took place only 2500 years ago. Overall, the Ngauruhoe broke in the 20th century out of 45 times, making it one of the most active volcanoes of this century at all. The last major eruption of the mountain took place in 1975. Since then smoke rose occasionally from the double crater of the mountain, without that it is once again come to an activity.

On the origin of the name, there are different views, including the view that the name of the mountain its origin in the words Nga Uru Hoe, hot throwing stones ', has.

For Peter Jackson's film trilogy The Lord of the Rings the Ngauruhoe was used as a stand-in for Mount Doom, which helped him to worldwide fame.