Mount Tongariro erupts
New Zealand History’s website has a wonderful timeline which informs us that on this day, November the thirteenth, in 1896 Mount Tongariro ‘erupted spectacularly’. This initial eruption started a series which continued on for almost a year and it makes fascinating reading browsing the contemporary accounts on Papers Past . Te Ara have a picture of Tongariro erupting that they have dated as likely from this time. Ref: Auckland Weekly News, Showing Ketetahi sulphur springs on Mount Tongariro , 2 October 1902, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19021002-7-3