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National Geographic Features Mount Doom
June 16, 2009
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Mt. Ruapehu (Mount Doom) in Tongariro National ParkNational Geographic has a nice article and photo gallery all about Tongariro National Park, featured as Mordor and Mount Doom in The Lord of the Rings films. Here's a brief excerpt:
As you contemplate the heart of Tongariro National Park— three peaks that rise in one of the most beautiful places in the famously beautiful country of New Zealand—you may well find questions of aesthetics intruding on your appreciation of the spectacular scene before you.
To the south looms the craggy mass of Ruapehu, at 9,176 feet the tallest peak on the North Island. Built by 250,000 years of volcanism, it's still active today—waking every few years to send up enormous columns of steam and ash. To the north is Tongariro, even older, a sprawling complex of ancient craters where vents continuously and ominously exhale sulfurous clouds.
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That is so cool!!
Comment by Laura - June 23, 2009 @ 5:18 AM
this is very retarded
Comment by hannah - December 15, 2009 @ 3:37 PM