Lake Taupo & Hot Pools
October 26th 2007 Lake Taupo is about the size of Singapore! It was created by volcanic eruptions, the main one around 186 AD, noted by the Chinese, who witnessed a blackening of the sky, and recorded by the Romans who saw the sky turn 'blood-red'. Reportedly, as the underground magma chamber emptied, the roof slumped leaving a huge steep-sided crater, since filled by, and forming part of, Lake Taupo. Evidence o
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