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A gas-and-steam plume rises above the Ruapehu Te Wai a-Moe (Crater Lake) during Surtseyan activity in September 1995 with two lahar deposits down the Whakapapa ski field on the northern flank. By early October almost all of the crater lake water had been removed. Photo by John A Krippner, 1995.

A gas-and-steam plume rises above the Ruapehu Te Wai ā-Moe (Crater Lake) during Surtseyan activity in September 1995 with two lahar deposits down the Whakapapa ski field on the northern flank. By early October almost all of the crater lake water had been removed.

Photo by John A Krippner, 1995.

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