Mayor island

[Roderick]

This volcano fell inwards... imploded!!!
Mayor Island, 20km off Waihi Beach


Courtesy of Roadhog ...i have stayed out there overnight a couple of times(in the 60's and 70's)...before it was given back to the maoris...was a great hotel there...then...not sure what goes on there now-a-days..??

[Roderick]

www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/activity/mayor-island/index.html

www.gns.cri.nz/what/earthact/volcanoes/nzvolcanoes/mayisprint.htm
Mayor Island


Mayor Island, in the Bay of Plenty, is seen here from the west. The low, 4-km-wide island, also known as Tuhua, is the summit of a broad, 15-km-wide lava shield. A 3-km-wide caldera formed during 2 or 3 collapse events, the latest of which followed a major explosive eruption about 6300 years ago. Mayor Island was recognized as an active volcano only within the past two decades. Its latest eruption may have occurred only 500-1000 years ago.

Photo by Malcolm Buck, 1980.

www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0401-021&volpage=photos&photo=117067

[Roderick]

www.geonet.org.nz/volcano/activity/rotorua/index.html

www.volcano.si.edu/world/tpgallery.cfm?category=Magma%20meets%20Water