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Scoop Images: Four Volcanoes and a Sunset

By: Alastair Thompson
Published: Sun 3 Aug 2003 08:02 PM
Scoop Editor Alastair Thompson is spending this week half-way up Mt Ruapehu, the largest volcano in the central volcanic region of New Zealand’s North Island. On arrival, four of the major volcanoes in the North Island could be viewed from the hut.


Tongariro & Ngauruhoe


Taranaki


Ruapehu


& a Sunset
Alastair Thompson
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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