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Mount Taranaki, now known by its Maori name Taranaki Maunga, in New Zealand has achieved a human status. 

About Mount Taranaki

• It has two official names Mount Egmont or Mount Taranaki.
• It is located in Egmont National Park.
• Features of Mount Taranaki
  • It is a stratovolcano (also called a composite cone) – and is made up of alternating layers of ash and lava flow.
  • It is one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world.
  • There is a circular ring plain of volcanic material formed from lahars and landslides.
  • It was created by subduction of the Pacific Plate below the Australian Plate. The magma is probably coming from deeper than the Taupo Volcanic Zone volcanoes as the subducting slab is deeper.
  • It is a snow-capped dormant volcano and the second highest mountain (8,261 feet) located in North Island of New Zealand.
• Mount Taranaki has become the third natural feature in New Zealand to be bestowed with an individual status, after Te Urewera National Park and Whanganui River.
• The Indigenous Maori people of New Zealand respect the snow-covered Taranaki Maunga as a sacred ancestor.

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Mount Taranaki FAQs

Q1: What is the real name of Mount Taranaki?

Ans: Taranaki Maunga

Q2: What type of volcano is Taranaki?

Ans: Mount Taranaki is a composite cone or strato-volcano,

Q3: What is the Taranaki fault?

Ans: The Taranaki Fault is a crustal-scale thrust fault, antithetic to the Hikurangi margin subduction thrust, and one of the largest known contractional structures in New Zealand.

Source: NBCN