The New Zealand Herald reported that about 100 middle-school students and teachers were safe after they were hiking on the Tongariro Track at the base of the volcano when it erupted.

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Mount Tongariro volcano erupted late Monday for the first time in nearly a century, leaving New Zealand’s North Island under a huge ash cloud, national media reported. The eruptions caught ...

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Vic Cassin sweeps ash from a car in Rangipo near Mount Tongariro, New Zealand after an eruption, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. The volcano in New Zealand's central North Island has erupted for the first ...

An eruption of one of New Zealand’s biggest volcanoes has seen flights cancelled and an ash cloud billow above the Pacific nation. Mount Tongariro had been dormant for 115 years.

Airways New Zealand continues in a state of high readiness while there remains any chance that Mount Tongariro could erupt again. Last month’s eruption occurred with minimal disruption to air ...

Mount Tongariro, a dormant volcano which suddenly erupted for the first time in more than a century, has covered parts of New Zealand's North Island in thick grey ash over several miles.

Mount Tongariro erupts in New Zealand A New Zealand volcano used as a backdrop to "The Lord of the Rings" films has erupted, sending a column of ash a mile and half above the North Island.

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Even though it erupted for the first time in more than a century on August 6, shooting boulders up to one-meter-wide into the air, Mount Tongariro, which sits on New Zealand's North Island, is ...

A New Zealand volcano that neighbors a mountain best known as Mount Doom of the Lord of the Rings films has rumbled back to life. Mount Tongariro, situated in a remote part of the country's North ...