# Moutohora Island

- **Country:** New Zealand
- **Coordinates:** -37.856111, 176.973056
- **Icon:** no
- **Text:** Moutohorā Island surface volcanics map with the predominant basaltic andesite coloured orange-red. Clicking on the map enlarges it, and enables panning and mouseover of nearby volcanic feature name/wikilink and ages before present. The key to the other volcanics that are shown with panning is basalt - brown, monogenetic basalts - dark brown, undifferentiated basalts of the Tangihua Complex in Northland Allochthon - light brown, arc basalts - deep orange brown, arc ring basalts -orange brown, andesite - red, dacite - purple, rhyolite - violet, ignimbrite (lighter shades of violet), and plutonic - gray.
- **Type:** Complex volcano
- **Zoom:** 10
- **Align:** center
- **Width:** 270
- **Height:** 270
- **Location:** Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand
- **Frameless:** 1
- **Other Name:** Moutohorā (Māori)
- **Elevation M:** 353
- **Prominence M:** 353
- **Last Eruption:** Pleistocene

Moutohora Island (previously known as Whale Island) is a small uninhabited island located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island, about north of the town of Whakatāne. The island is a remnant of a complex volcano which has eroded, leaving two peaks. This is still an area of volcanic activity and there are hot springs on the island in Sulphur Valley, McEwans Bay, and Sulphur Bay.

![Photo of Moutohora Island](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/WhaleIsland2006.jpg)

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