This story appears in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. As you contemplate the heart of Tongariro National Park— three peaks that rise in one of the most beautiful places in ...

In the World Heritage nomination of Tongariro National Park, the Crater Lake on Mt Ruapehu was specifically identified as one of the three vulcanological features that justified this status. The ...

Heather is already common over roughly one third of the landscape in Tongariro National Park. The plant, with its distinctive pink flowers, is easy to spot from the Desert Road. Heather was ...

2002 26BUR XII.47-52 - Tongariro National Park (New Zealand) 2002 26COM 21B.31 - Tongariro National Park (New Zealand) 1999 23BUR IVB.49 - Tongariro National Park (New Zealand) The Nomination files ...