History
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From violent volcanic origins to the settlement of Māori and European people, the Taupo region has deep cultural significance. Lake Taupo was created by a massive volcanic eruption around 186AD.
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For Māori, the central North Island landscape is of deep cultural and spiritual significance.
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In 1887, the paramount chief of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, Horonuku Te Heuheu, gave the central North Island volcanoes to the Crown for a national park.