Yet, the lake is the crater of a giant super volcano ... more than 100km away with of pyroclastic flow. Today, the Taupo super volcano remains active, and is now 800 years overdue for its next ...

Lake Taupō, a serene water body located at the centre of New Zealand's north island actually sits within a prehistoric caldera, or a large volcanic crater. This crater was formed after the Earth ...

It created the caldera (volcanic crater) that later filled with water ... and we feel comfortable saying that Lake Taupo is one of our very favourite (if not our very favorite) lakes in the ...

Lake Taupo-area scientists in New Zealand raised the alert level of a volcano sitting beneath the country’s largest lake on Tuesday after detecting 700 small earthquakes below the surface since May.

A volcano inside a volcano, Wizard Island rises 767 feet above the surface of Crater Lake, in this archival photo from July of 1962. Photograph by Walter Meayers Edwards, Nat Geo Image Collection ...

Lake Taupo is the largest crater lake in the country. Formed some 26,500 years ago in a volcanic eruption, the lake is surrounded by geothermal wonders and offers a breathtaking view of the snow ...