Central Plateau

The series of activities described below was designed to help students develop an understanding about earthquakes in New Zealand, including why we get them and how...

New Zealand has volcanoes stretching from the Bay of Islands down to Otago. Many of our volcanoes are extinct (no longer active), some are dormant (not...

Aotearoa has world-famous lakes – for example, Lakes Taupō, Rotorua and Wakatipu – but there are a huge number tucked away that most of us probably...