# Mount Ngauruhoe

- **Country:** New Zealand
- **Coordinates:** -39.156833, 175.632167
- **Type:** Parasitic cone (active)
- **Listing:** Mountains of New Zealand
- **Location:** North Island, New Zealand
- **Elevation M:** 2291
- **First Ascent:** March 1839 by John Bidwill, an English botanist. Two Māori guides came with him to within 1 kilometre of the peak.
- **Easiest Route:** Scramble (summer)
- **Fetchwikidata:** AL
- **Last Eruption:** 1977
- **Volcanic Zone:** Taupō Volcanic Zone
- **Label Position:** left

In this region of the southern Taupō Rift, the Tertiary greywacke basement is tens to hundreds of metres thick and hundreds of metres above sea level. The magma reservoir is about deep although other historic Tongariro vents to the south had much deeper magma sources.

![Photo of Mount Ngauruhoe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Le_Ngauruhoe_et_le_Ruapehu_vus_du_sommet_du_Tongariro.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ngauruhoe (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)