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Mt Taranaki

View of Mount Taranaki, New Zealand with road in foreground.

Is an andesite cone volcano that last erupted in 1854. Formed over a period of around 130,000 years, this mountain is an almost perfect cone shape – one of the best examples of a cone volcano worldwide.

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