Mt Taranaki. North Island. New Zealand.
S 39° 17.500 E 174° 04.000
60H E 247021 N 5646753
Mt Taranaki, the perfect mountain, a symmetrical cone-shaped volcano, rising from the flat fertile ring plain surrounding it, jutting out into the sea on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
Waymark Code: WM6V5H
Location: North Island, New Zealand
Date Posted: 07/21/2009
Views: 11
This beautiful mountain of perfection is a perfect volcanic cone. Seen from above it is clearly a complete circle of white snow capped volcanic peak lying in the centre of a larger circle of deep green forested bushland.
In 1881, a circular area with a radius of six miles (9.6 km) from the summit was protected as a Forest Reserve.
Surrounding these circles is the partly circular Taranaki Peninsula, a piece of land protruding into the deep blue Tasman sea. The peninsular appears a lighter shade of green, intensively-farmed dairy pasture reaching right up to the mostly-circular park boundary. The change in vegetation is sharply delineated in satellite images.
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