Where on Google Earth #157
Alright!
Ron Schott is bringing the Where on Google Earth game back to the geoblogosphere and posted this question today. He ended up posting a picture of the Loihi Seamount near the Big Island of Hawaii and I was the first person to identify it correctly. As a result, I have won my first WoGE game! Yes.
That means I get to post a question! So here we go. It might be pretty easy for people to guess, therefore, I evoke the Schott Rule: That means that previous winners must wait at least one hour for each WoGE they have successfully solved before submitting a solution. Current post time will be 9:00PM Pacific Time.
Anyway, one of my favorite places on Earth. And I cannot believe this shot came out of Google Earth. Absolutely phenomenal.
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So how do you win?
1.) Be the first person to tell me the name of this geologic structure.
2.) Tell me what this structure is.
3.) Post the latitude and longitude that you can find it.
And if you win, that means you get to host the next installment! Yes!
Go!
(Links to previous WoGE locations and winners can be found here.)
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This is the crater lake at Mt. Ruapehu, New Zealand. 39deg16.5′S, 175deg33.5′E. Mt. Ruapehu is an active stratovolcano in the southern part of the Taupo Volcanic Zone (or field). It’s also a ski area and the highest peak in the North Island. Mt. Ruapehu began erupting about 250,000 years ago, has had several major eruptions and numerous minor eruptions since then. The crater lake exists because tephra eruptions in 1995 and 1996 created a dam. The crater-lake dam burst during the 2007 eruption, resulting in a 1.4 million cubic meter lahar going down the mountain and into the Whangaehu river. This cycle of crater lakes bursting into lahars, the lake emptying and then re-forming has happened several times, the way I understand it. Most importantly, though, Mt. Ruapehu was Mt. Doom in the movie, The Lord of the Rings. – Is that why it looked familiar?
You are right! Mostly. ;-)
Mt. Ngauruhoe (the next volcano over) was actually the stand in for Mt. Doom in the Lord of the Rings movies! :-) I’ve been fortunate enough to climb to the top of it. Photos here.
Mt. Ngauruhoe is the volcano in the top right of this photo. Ruapehu is the one in the bottom left.
Ruapehu is one of the most active lahar fields in the world!
Anyway, good job!
Bah – I knew this one, too! Damned time zones.
I tried a couple of times when I was in NZ to get up to the Ruapehu crater lake, but was thwarted by the weather. I did the Tongariro Crossing though, which was seriously impressive. I should scan in the photos sometime…
WoGE #158 is up over at my place!