Mount Taranaki National Park in New Zealand has an almost perfectly circular boundary: the change in vegetation is so sharply delineated that the photos from above look like this. r/oddlysatisfying For those little things that are inexplicably satisfying.

Mar 2, 2021 · Mount Taranaki, New Zealand, the circle around the mountain is a national park, around that circle, there are fields.

IIRC the Maori say that Taranaki lived with the other mountains in central North Island. Taranaki got in a fight over a girl with another mountain and lost, and went to the other side of the island to sulk. So it kind of is the Lonely Mountain.

Feb 13, 2021 · Mount Taranaki , is an active volcano on the North Island, in New Zealand and is considered one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world, it is almost circular, whose boundary appears as a dark green circle, because of the difference in the vegetation, inside and outside the park.

Mar 13, 2022 · Anyone done the Mt Taranaki summit climb? Which entrance is better? Main entrance at the visitors centre or Stratford plateau? Edit; planning to start around 5am, so we can start the climb the lodge during sunrise. Edit2: We did it!

Jan 7, 2022 · Taranaki is a very active volcano, and every 5k or so years the entire thing collapses in a 50km long landslide towards the coast The mountain top will likely be on top of what was formerly Stratford in a century or two, mountains overdue for a big blowup

Dec 4, 2023 · Mount Taranaki, a dormant stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North ...

Dec 30, 2020 · Mount Taranaki, New Zealand, is one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world. It was used as Mt. Fuji in Tom Cruise’s “The Last Samurai” and was the backdrop to some of the bloodiest conflicts in New Zealand’s colonial past.

Jul 5, 2021 · Mount Taranaki, New Zealand (Photo credit to Martin Schmidli) [3840 x 2160] With ImageGoNord

18 December 2019: North Egmont road end - limited parking This summer, parking is limited for the Mount Taranaki summit track at the North Egmont road end. Use local shuttles or start the trail from the Stratford Plateau car park on Pembroke Road, Stratford to avoid disappointment.