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Up Tongariro Road, which borders the park that has the finish line: I really want to run for these people, but my knees are killing me.
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The Department of Conservation disconnected roof-fed water supplies at many of the huts in the Tongariro
Volcanic Ash -- Effects on Water Supply and Mitigation Strategies 2009
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The Department of Conservation disconnected roof-fed water supplies at many of the huts in the Tongariro
Volcanic Ash -- Effects on Water Supply and Mitigation Strategies 2009
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Tongariro National Park: management plan. 96 pp. Turnbull.
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Extensive glaciation up to 14,700 years ago eroded both Tongariro and Ruapehu and glacial valleys with terminal and lateral moraine formations are present.
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Although the region has four national parks (Tongariro, Egmont, Whanganui, and Te Urewera), there were significant areas of indigenous forests that were poorly protected until the late 1970's.
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Tongariro was New Zealand's first national park, created following a gifting of the sacred central North Island peaks to the nation in 1887.
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The CMS does not replace the Tongariro National Park Management Plan, but will give recognition to it.
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More recent volcanic activity has occurred within Tongariro National Park and the result is a mosaic of vegetation types.
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The active group extends about 20 km along a south-west to north-east axis, with a width of some 10 km and comprises Tongariro (1,968 m), Ngauruhoe (2,290 m) and Ruapehu (2,797 m) volcanoes, the three great volcanic mountains of central North Island.
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