Dancing on a Volcano

Auckland is perhaps the largest and most modern city in the world to be built in the mouth of an active volcano.

Volcanic cones dot the city:


The most recent to erupt, only 600 years ago, created a brand-new island in the harbor, called Rangitoto:


The most active volcano in New Zealand at the moment is called White Island. It is a couple hundred miles southeast of Auckland, just off the North Island coast:


But although the volcanic activity is here at the moment and not in Auckland, you cannot count out a re-emergence there. New Zealand is among the most geologically active places on earth.

So go see it while it is still there ...