A Line of Volcanos - the birth of Mt Taranaki

This AV is displayed in the Taranaki Naturally Gallery at Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. It shows the amazing development of our iconic mountain, Mt Taranaki.

[@slooob23]

I'd be more worried about when the bloody thing collapses again!

[@freespiritable]

Yeah it sounds like that will be the next move

[@kiwikewi]

@@freespiritable It's a possibility! Still I don't really want to see the next Mount Saint Helens in NZ..

[@gfrizzleshizzlemanizzle]

Don't bro. Just relax. Breath champ.

[@slooob23]

@@gfrizzleshizzlemanizzle you have the best user name ever.

[@toast47624]

Our home is in the path of it's Laha flow in Norfolk. I have excavated through the 2m thick pit metal to find swamp pug filled with Manuka sticks as fresh as a daisy. As if they got buried yesterday. As best as I can ascertain from this those sticks were 3600 years old.

[@stealthmodestudio]

Foardhook would love to see those rakau

[@robheathcote8561]

cheers for uploading, finally somthing decent about NZs volcano's

[@raymondwhiu99]

Damn mt taranaki is prone to collapsing wow..

[@kiwihexbug964]

I remember climbing Mt Egmont at age 14. In those days you could stand right at the very top. Great mountain, great memories.

[@isekai7448]

its Mt Taranaki.

[@kiwihexbug964]

@@isekai7448 Officially it has two names (Mt Egmont and Mt Taranaki) - you can verify this in the New Zealand Gazetteer from LINZ. But more to the point, it was only called Mt Egmont when I climbed it. So I climbed Mt Egmont, not Mt Taranaki.

[@typedef_8463]

You can still stand at the very top...

[@user-oh4yd5uh4e]

New Zealand was not called Aotearoa when I was born. I was born in New Zealand. I am a New Zealander.@@kiwihexbug964

[@bernardtimmer6723]

She's had a few minor eruptions since, the last being around 1850. Clear evidence of those collapses can be found in shapes of hummocks south of the cone. I used to live in Hawera and as a kid I climbed Taranaki with my dad starting above Stratford, awesome!!

[@gb7702]

It's a he not she

[@adeleolsen5806]

Very informative, and well done. Thank you.

[@gregreed402]

My Egmont is what we called it , this has formed some of the best reef breaks in NZ . The only trouble is the rivers that flow off the mountain get so polluted from human activity.

[@SiliconBong]

We should have planted a billion trees along the riversides in the seventies.

[@bobbydee668]

MT TARANAKI IS PROPER NAME GIVEN TO THE VOLCANO . NOT MOUNT EGMOUNT.

[@CreedBrattonTheOffice]

@@bobbydee668 You're right. It's not Mt Egmount, it's Mt Egmont.

[@jaguar813]

Amazing Mountain. I have a feeling that it will comeback to life sooner rather than later!

[@gfrizzleshizzlemanizzle]

Hi, Any idea on ruff dates please. Thanks.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

Nice video about mt Taranaki, I have been in New Plymouth for a week in 2010 and didn't realise her last eruption was that recent. Luckily New Plymouth is north of the other older cones and least prone to landslides, but there is population although less in the other directions, so a new collapse sounds pretty scary to me.

[@mspmaoris9055]

History is amazing

[@gfrizzleshizzlemanizzle]

You're amazing.

[@TheThenac1]

Awesome

[@gfrizzleshizzlemanizzle]

You are.

[@mspmaoris9055]

So cool

[@gfrizzleshizzlemanizzle]

You are.

[@UriahD85]

Haha use to see this alot at puki ariki museum TV up stairs level

[@shawntepitts488]

Intresting

[@rippi37]

Interesting video ! This volcano just won't give up !! I hope it goes to sleep , for the sake of the lovely Kiwi people.

[@CasuallyCold]

I'm not from New Zealand 🇳🇿 I'm from the US 🇺🇸 but just looking at Mount Taranaki it's shape just satisfies me. Compared other volcanoes like Mount Rainier or Krakatau Mount Taranaki has a almost perfect circular shape. It looks like a small dot on the Earth from space but when you are actually on the ground it looks tall. One of the tallest points on the North Island.

[@Lana-pf5ce]

Mt Mayon and Mt Shishaldin are even more cone shaped than Taranaki

[@Koellenburg]

cool :)

[@hikingzone]

I climbed up there last year. Question how do you know it claps few times....

[@anandapangestu6400]

Thank you for the explanation! You are really helping to finish my assignment. But, can you sent me a journal or paper or publications to me, in order to I can cite it?

[@Awakeninghumanzombies247]

When our KINGDOM is ready 🦁🏰♾️👸🤴

[@scottleft3672]

It awoke 140 years ago, as with Krakatoa, and again 2 years ago, both.

[@WilliamGJ1]

Who's the voiceover?

[@OfficialSpencer]

Mt Taranaki can't be playing with us like that...

[@deathsoulger1]

what this guys still alive. i didnt know that when i climbed it

[@allanstill867]

When will it awake again..How long is a wet piece of string????

[@northernal321]

Why does it matter if its wet? A dry and neatly folded piece of string can be just as long.

[@allanstill867]

@@northernal321 Could be short at one end.

[@darrenhoupapa1183]

O my i live in Eltham Taranaki under the shawed of our Mountain i hope it dose not erupt in our time

[@Boyl151]

#CENTRALTARANKI

[@tuffkiwi8480]

are you sure

[@poobum9857]

Taranaki was there first.. aptly named

[@poobum9857]

i was looking for egmont and couldn't find it !!

[@CallemJayNZ]

You’ll find it under Mt Taranaki

[@CallemJayNZ]

@Delilah Jones No you won't Delilah, its name is definitely Mt Taranaki. The pre waka people in Taranaki called the mountain Pukehaupapa but we only use that name when referring to the mountain poetically

[@mitchjames8384]

@Delilah Jones calm the fuck down mate, jesus

[@zillick6855]

Delilah Jones stfu you foreskin

[@draz8302]

@Delilah Jones i like this joke. i laugh

[@hemaraotimi1812]

Surrounded by Nga Maunga we over the hill King Country .

[@peekeyeseek]

Volcano aka Earth Acne.

[@nakieyetechnz6228]

If Mt Taranaki Erupts. It will errupt with A Pyroclastic Cloud

[@akashtawade42]

sprinkle some water on it . make it cool

[@gb7702]

It would be cool if it erupted. But you got the story wrong Mt Taranaki is a male who moved from the central north island over a fight over a woman with other guys.

[@Awakeninghumanzombies247]

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[@manininikolas9310]

Next ouchhhh.

[@v8valiant68]

Hope it doesn't erupt in our life time, if it does keep safe, i see the last 2 collapses were on the coast side, I live on the coast.

[@sydwest4965]

Its like people who buy houses next to rivers and streams,,at some point its gunna flood..

[@freespiritable]

Wouldn't it be wise to move now that you know?

[@northwestkiwi7742]

@@freespiritable Nowhere in NZ is safe from an environmental catastrophe (cyclone, earthquake, flood). At least our danger is pretty to look at.

[@malcolmabram2957]

Taranaki fell in love with Tongariro but she rejected his advances. So he moved westwards to overlook the sea and sulked.

[@sydwest4965]

A Maori delusion...

[@danphillips8530]

No, Taranaki fell in love with Pihanga and Tongariro blew his top fighting him, winning the heart of Pihanga, so Taranaki went west toward the setting sun.

[@sydwest4965]

@@danphillips8530 Still a Delusion a Maori Delusion..Theres a reason its called mythology...

[@slooob23]

.....and collapsed.....multiple times

[@sydwest4965]

@@slooob23 Go to bell block beach at low tide head to the right hand side of the beach and walk towards Waitara look in the cliff you will see the remains of a buried forest lahar form a collapse of Taranaki during an eruption..It also has Taranaki fine ask mixed into this lahar..Taranaki hasint collapsed under its own weight it only collapses during an eruption..From Bell Block to the summit of Taranaki is 45 KMs..For a lahar to travel through dense forest to bell block it must have been a massive eruption...

[@puhigeoffreywaynefuimaonok8656]

quarry waste

[@kerryannrogers8967]

wrong!!!!!

[@Koellenburg]

why?

[@warefairsoda]

why not?

[@fabian_in_a_coffee_cup]

how do you know?

[@MrHaloplayer101]

Please don't tell us its wrong because you believe it had a fight with ruapehu and moved lol!!!!

[@dcampbell4585]

@@MrHaloplayer101 hahahahaha

[@williecoyote1478]

its Mt Eggmont

[@ilike9368]

No, its been updated and therefore called Mt Taranaki

[@williecoyote1478]

@Shaun Te Ruki Hi when did Rua climb the Mountain - Year and Month? Having climbed and Skied the mountain for so many years I know how bad the terrain is. Example - From May to October the upper slopes have blue ice. One slip and you are gone - I have seen over 5 people fall and slip over bluffs skiing. How did Rua deal with this in bare feet? In summer the scoria and jagged rocks would have cut his feet to bits Let alone the 2 to 3 day trip through dense forest. Which side did he climb it?

[@draz8302]

@@williecoyote1478 its a myth, maori people dont count the year or date or whatever back in those ancient times, when the tribes of taranaki came to Taranaki, Rua climbed the mountain because of a fight or something he had with his son I believe, something along the lines of that to prove himself I believe, I can't remember the story very well.

[@JA.MMP274]

The same way they use to navigate their way around the south island. Queenstown lol that was a Maori summer holiday park if you will long before you bitch made ancestors rocked up!!

[@JA.MMP274]

The same way we navigated the South Island. Read a book or ten.

[@jetblackhair92]

He didn't like pronouncing the Maori word correctly 😂

[@slooob23]

Its tuddaduckie

[@evanpenny348]

@@slooob23 tara narkee

[@UriahD85]

Bro this is a 17 year old video but too late m8

[@jadewaaka3862]

Come on... Egmont has only been named that the last hundred or so years. Facts being twisted undermines Maori history. Which in turn undermines New Zealand history. Come on... Get it right... It's been 150 years now.

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

Maori history tells some fairy tail story about a mountain romance gone wrong & Egmont/Taranaki moving away, you believe all that BS?

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

@dumbo7429 No, I'm a Ngati Haua.

[@pietervanleeuwen2189]

dumbo7429 , It was Abel Tasman who named it Mount Egmont.

[@bobbydee668]

@dumbo7429. You definitely are what your name reads. DUMBO.

[@UriahD85]

To be fair we had nothing written until the Europeans helped out with writing and translation. So unless you have some maori text that is pre European I have nothing else to say

[@LLLL-ld5wh]

Goodness....the constant reference to "Egmont Volcano" was annoying. It is Taranaki. Disappointing to see this video is coming from Pukeariki.

[@northwestkiwi7742]

The video was made at the opening of Puke Ariki in the early 2000s, when 'Egmont' and 'Taranaki' were still use fairly interchangeably. It'd be great to see the audio updated, though.

[@jayhart1353]

@@northwestkiwi7742 it is what it is....its history

[@robertbaird4822]

What a load of hogwash

[@JA.MMP274]

🤮🤮 when I hear the word egmont

[@andrewwian4921]

Utter BS