| Mount Ngauruhoe | |
|---|---|
 Ngauruhoe seen from Mount Tongariro | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 2,291 m (7,516 ft) |
| Listing | Mountains of New Zealand |
| Coordinates | 39°09′24.6″S 175°37′55.8″E / 39.156833°S 175.632167°E |
| Naming | |
| Pronunciation | Māori: [ŋaːʉɾʉhɔɛ] |
| Geography | |
.png)  Mount Ngauruhoe New Zealand | |
| Location | North Island, New Zealand |
| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Parasitic cone (active) |
| Volcanic arc/belt | Taupō Volcanic Zone |
| Last eruption | 1977[1] |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | March 1839 by John C. Bidwill, an English botanist. Two Māori guides came with him to within 1 kilometre of the peak.[2] |
| Easiest route | Scramble (summer) |
Mount Ngauruhoe (Māori: Ngāuruhoe) is a volcanic cone in New Zealand. It is the youngest vent in the Tongariro stratovolcano complex on the Central Plateau of the North Island and first erupted about 2,500 years ago.[3] Although often regarded as a separate mountain, geologically, it is a secondary cone of Mount Tongariro.
The volcano lies between the active volcanoes of Mount Tongariro to the north and Mount Ruapehu to the south, to the west of the Rangipo Desert and 25 kilometres to the south of the southern shore of Lake Taupō.
- ^ "Tongariro". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ "BIDWILL, John Carne". An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage / Te Manatū Taonga. 1966. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
- ^ Erfurt-Cooper, Patricia; Cooper, Malcolm (2010). Volcano and Geothermal Tourism: Sustainable Geo-Resources for Leisure and Recreation. Earthscan. p. 291. ISBN 9781849775182.