WHAKAPAPA VILLAGE, New Zealand -- New Zealand's Mount Ngauruhoe starred as fiery ... a line of volcanoes and a deep crater now called Lake Taupo, a hole in the North Island as big as Singapore ...

One is Mt Ngauruhoe, which starred as Mt Doom in the The Lord of the Rings ... and as a teenager I spent a lot of time going swimming at Lake Taupo, going to the hot pools, climbing up mountains ...

"The stark cone of Mt Ngauruhoe played a leading role in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, featuring as a smoldering Mt Doom ... the mountain-ringed Lake Wanaka. The movie has suffered ...

A group of 90 schoolchildren fled from a volcano in New Zealand dubbed 'Mount Doom' featured in Lord of ... GNS had said that temperatures below a lake in the crater of the North Island indicated ...

However, this active volcano in the center of New Zealand’s North Island was the filming location for the real-life Mount Doom in Peter ... s summit lies Crater Lake (Te Wai ā-moe).

Lake Taupo is hiding the world’s largest caldera volcano of ... photogenic cone volcano Mount Ngauruhoe had a starring role as Mount Doom. Get a list of all LOTR locations in the country at New ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a stunning image of a snow-circled hydrothermal lake atop the real-life "Mount Doom" in New Zealand. Mount Ruapehu ...

Dramatic landforms include the volcanic peaks of Ngauruhoe (Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings movies ... and enjoy spectacular views out over Mount Pihanga and Lake Rotoaira across to Lake Taupo to ...

Stretching 623sq km wide and 160m deep with several magma chambers submerged at its base, Lake Taupo isn't only New Zealand's largest lake; it's also an incredibly active geothermal hotspot.