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Kingsgate Hotel The Avenue
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Kingsgate Hotel The Avenue Wanganui is the largest accommodation venue in Wanganui, with 57...
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New Zealand: Nature & Wildlife
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Tongariro National Park
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Tongariro National Park – the heart of the Ruapehu District – is not only a special Park for the people of New Zealand, it is also unique in the world. It is recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site under two categories. It is listed because of its unique, active volcanic attributes and also its special cultural significance. When Horonuku Te Heu Heu Tukino gifted Tongariro to the people of New Zealand, he was also gifting it to the people of the world. The volcanoes of the Park and their glaciers, plants and animals represent a set of landforms and natural communities which have been recognised as outstanding heritage of international significance. The volcanoes are unique because of the frequency of eruptions and their highly explosive nature. They are two of the world’s most continuously active composite volcanoes. Another outstanding natural feature is the unusual interplay of volcanic and glacial processes on Ruapehu. Its Crater Lake is one of only two of its type in the world where magma and glacial meltwater interact to gives rise to spectacular eruptions.
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