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Lake Taupo Description
Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest inland stretch of water (area over 600 sq.km), is a remote and peaceful location in the heart of the North Island. After some 300,000 years of relative calm there was a series of violent eruptions in this area in the 2nd C. AD, when immense amounts of volcanic ash and pumice were spewed out and spread over a huge area. Later the empty crater collapsed, forming a caldera, and the accumulated mass of detritus prevented the water collected in the crater from draining away. Thus Lake Taupo was born.

When this last great eruption in the Lake Taupo area occurred New Zealand was probably not yet occupied by people, but its effects were felt across the world, as records from China and the Roman Empire
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