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- Mount Taranaki, on the North Island of New Zealand, is a large-scale circle that's visible from space: a stratovolcano with six miles of forest around it. But that didn't happen naturally. Oh, and there's a good chance that, in the next fifty years or so, it might explode.
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For the second time this month, I've been filming with a static camera and odd lighting and it looks a bit like I'm on a greenscreen. I'm not; but the next time I'm doing a solo piece to camera, I'll use the GoPro on a stick instead. And the steam behind me isn't anything volcanic; it's just backlit morning mist as the night's rain is boiled off by the sun!
1 week ago scheduled uploadd
At this point a video talking about it with a demonstration is in order :p
Tom Scott must have a lot of scheduled videos since his recent videos have comments way before it was posted.
*** evaporated off ***, unless the water is at 100 degrees behind you
Tom, I’d love to see you do a video on the eye of Africa!
Tom is the best at these sorts of videos. Please never stop.
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Active volcano you say? Well, there is plenty of time in 2020 still. Gotta be good year, certainly.
Wouldn't surprise me, NZ is right on the fault line. Just need the right earthquake to set off a domino effect.
New Zealand already had an eruption in December 2019, so maybe
What could go wrong.
-Volcano erupts
-Releases a ton of cash damaging crops and killing humans
-Aliens will come to colonize us
Krakatoa beat us to it back in April.
When Auckland is built on a chain of underground volcanos
What could go wrong?
I wake up to the view of Mt Taranaki every day. Every so often I go up the mountain to do one of the many walks. The forest surrounding it is so thick and dense and filled with birdlife - very peaceful.
What is the problem with dogs in the car or with you walking around?
Any “strange” experiences? 🙏🏻
@@ironeddie9917 dogs arent allowed because they can harm the wildlife which is protected. just a law
Have you found any Korok Seeds at the top there? That is the same mountain as in Botw right?
@@tommytheshimigami I did notice a suspicious looking rock up there. Next time will lift it up and check...
An image popped into my mind of one guy standing on the summit, holding one end of a very long piece of string and another walking around him, holding the other end and drawing a circle around the volcano. I'd like to think that's how they did it.
One can imagine.
There were 2 of them. And on each end of the string they attached a can to communicate because premodern humans didn't have cellphones.
How heavy would a string that long be, even if its just normal twine?
@@ChaseDimmitt 6 miles is about 9.66 km and using standard 1 mm twisted twine you can get about 1.02 km/kg. Using this we can find out that twine that long would be about 9.66/1.02 = 9.47 kg
You're A twiddler, A dreamer, A silly-heart, A jabber-box, who'll never amount to anything.
I have flown from Auckland to Wellington on a clear day around the west side of Mt. Taranaki, with Mt. Ruapehu in the background. Absolutely breathtaking!
same, but i didn't look out the window the entire flight😂💀
I used to do it all the time AKL to WLG and never got sick of the view, it was just stunning. One of the things I miss about not living in NZ
West of the island is the south lane. North flight travel on the east
Great video, although as a volcanologist I feel it's worth pointing out the the term "overdue" when referring to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes and the like is a tad misleading. Periodicity of past activity is not always a reliable way to predict future activity as the volcano does what it wants, no matter what our statistical analyses say it "should" do. Past activity can be used as a guide to help inform volcanic risk management policy, certainly, but measurements of what is happening now are far more useful.
Although I hasten to add, the people who study this particular volcano are better prepared to comment on its activity history than I am. I'm not involved in monitoring in any capacity and live on the other side of the planet, but like people, volcanoes all have different personalities and - crucially - they change over time.
Personally, I think if the statistics shows that a volcano normally erupt between 80-100 years, centuries back. And has done that repeatedly. It is very real to label it overdue when it goes over that. Because, that is how statistics work.
It is like saying, "pregnancy can't be overdue, since the body and fetus does what it wants". But we tend to say it is overdue past 9 months or something similar, because statistics show, the normal rate tends to be around 8-9 months.
I mean you both are true, we'll just have to wait and watch
As a professional TH-cam commenter, Ok.
@@Helveteshit I'm not sure the analogy to pregnancy is quite appropriate. You wouldn't expect a pregnancy to last multiple years whereas a volcano suddenly deciding that it's not going to erupt again, despite previous activity, is not unheard of and doesn't indicate something is "wrong" like it would for a pregnancy that lasts far longer than normal. It's just doing what volcanoes do and we have insufficient data to understand what's going on. Volcanoes can enter into different phases of eruptive activity with seemingly no warning, whereas I've never heard of instances where mothers consistently give birth to fully developed, healthy, children after two months rather than nine. Without additional data, we don't actually know what the volcano is going to do. The reason it hasn't followed previous patterns may be because it is no longer being supplied with magma, or the rate of magma ascent has slowed, or there is a blockage somewhere in the conduit or some other reason specific to that volcano. Saying it is "overdue" is not generally good science communication as it implies things that aren't always true and can lead to unnecessary panic and in the worst cases, a distrust of experts.
I've never won the lottery, but there's no reason to assume I will never win it because past patterns overwhelmingly show that I never win two times a week, every week. For the record I only play the lottery something like once every couple of years, definitely not twice a week, I'm just using it as an example of an event which happens often and has very consistent past results that are not an indication of future results.
"overdue" sounds a lot like the gambler's fallacy. That one certainly applies to volcanoes as well.
I can't wait for Peter Jackson to get a call saying its eruption day, and for him to drive out there with a camera crew to start filming the extended Extended Editions of LotR
I'd watch that
Peter: "okay Andy, you can jump now."
Mount Dooms Revenge.
Its also Mt Fuji in the Last Samurai
What I see is that there was a very qualified surveyor staff to mark out a really nice circle over a massive area. Good work gentleman.
it's not that complicated, you simply tie a rope around the volcano then walk around it, then you have a perfect circle
My flight for Wellington from Auckland boards in 5 minutes..... Thanks Tom
how was the view?
I hope you enjoyed the view :)
are you on the plane yet
You made it back yet?
I guess your flight must have been delayed.
Tom scott: im unqualified to talk about this
Every other youtuber: hey guys, so today im gonna talk about the beginning of the universe.....
It when you want to signal that you are politically correct.
@@randomrud It when you want to signal that you hate women and minorities (epic style 😎)
*QUARKS N STUFF*
@@benjaminshepherd2988 I hate women (epic style 😎)
@@dielfonelletab8711 It when you're woke (epic style 😎)
i dont understand why are your videos so simple yet so entertaning
$100,000 fine for a dog? They’re not messing around.
I have to question why - that sounds like such an odd restriction
@@robburgess4556 Probably to protect biodiversity and avoid doing the same mistake Europeans did with cats, ferrets, rabbits and mices.
@@robburgess4556 Dogs (and cats) have brought a lot of New Zealand native species on the brink of extinction.
DOG IS NO NO
new zealand has no native large mammals or even predatory small ones, birds fill that ecological niche there so cats and dogs have a really easy time killing wildlife as the native species have no native predators at all similar and so have not evolved to be wary of them or defend against them.
Having lived much of my childhood at the foot of this mountain , seeing it every day other than on the frequent occasions when cloud concealed it , it became part of my life. Having it officially , and legally recognized as a person makes my heart glad . When I was 13 yrs old or thereabouts , my father and some school friends went on an open climb to the summit . It is one of the highlights of my life . I also had many interesting nightmares in which the mountain erupted .
I found your use of the term "open climb" odd and did a quick search to find out what it actually means. So, "open climb/descent" is apparently an Airbus specific terminology, meaning climbing in full thrust or descending in idle thrust to attain the next desired altitude. I assume you did not fly in an Airbus and simply hiked up the mountain. Peace
@@lovehand9531 huh tf
@@kunaldahiya310 spek engrish?
Ha i live there too 😂
@@lovehand9531 get help bro tf did I just read how is open climb odd and why did u make it sound so professional
Im from Taranaki, all the surrounding land is farm land, and the forest is a national park. Cool to see my home town in one of your videos :D I watch you all the time but never stumbled upon this one.
"2020 is the worst year"
Mount Taranaki:
"It's show time"
Bruh, Taupo is about 10000 times the magnitude, bigger than Yellowstone. Now that is a 2020 level threat!
Remind me again why do I live in NZ
New Zealand might die
RussianCoffeeClub you were born there
@@harpermacreedy4167 😂
"Enjoy the view while you can, because at some point it will change"
**literally describing the whole universe*
Ahhhh....chaos theory
I mean the universe won't end within your lifetime, this probably will :P
*except my bedroom, it will always be messy and will never change
@@maybeyourbaby6486 sssshhhhhhh, just enjoy the universe before the heat death of the universe happens
Literally describing the women I date.
I live in new Zealand, and I have recently been learning about the history of the wildlife here, and it's so sad to know that all of the forests that were cleared out had so many crucial native species.
Also at 2:20, it looks so depressing to see the one small little lonely town in the middle of no where
Funny you say that, I live in this area. That town at 2:20 is Stratford, which is halfway between Hawera and New Plymouth. Not lonely and certainly not little.
how is a small village sad?
New Zealand and the world is over populated, there is a climate crisis, everybody stop exhaling and do not decompose when you are not alive.
My dude, you can't say how sad it is to have cleared out so much nature and then in the next breathe say it's sad to see small towns 🤣 But also it takes an hour to travel from one side of the region to the other on that side of the mountain. There are plenty of towns along that journey but if you want to reach a bigger place it's only 30mins in either direction. It's hardly the middle of nowhere.
@@Planefan1000 You need some perspective. I'm from Taranaki, but in 90% of the developed world considers a town that's barely 10,000 people as a little town. You're showing the taranaki small minded reputation the rest of NZ has for us.
"The circle visible from space"
Flat earthers: " You mean EaRtH?"
It's Bk sPaCe IsN't ReAl!1!1
I'm sure there are flat earthers who think the earth is flat, but square-shaped.
to be fair a two-dimensional projection of a sphere will always be a circle so even a spherical earth will look like a circle from space (assuming you're far enough away to see all of it)
@@JaytleBee to be fair everything is 2-dimensional projection
stop with the flatearth people, they meme trolls trying to get attention.
ive lived in nz all my life, (47 years ) flown over this same area over 100 times, driven around it maybe 200+ times and never noticed or known about the circle national forest. Thank you for opening my eyes to such an interesting thing in my back yard.
Guess you never had a window seat... .
@@tip397 I’ve had dozens but I never look out . I fly maybe 30-50 times a year around nz for work. Looking out the window faded and I spent more time catching up on emails or advancing the next show
can i get a job? thanks in advance :)
One of the best National Parks in NZ. The drive up to the Southern entrance was so relaxing as you go through a narrow corridor surrounded by trees.
I've lived here all my life and I'm 16 and I knew about it like 3 years ago
I've Lived in Taranaki for 17 years ( since i moved from the UK) and it's certainly a spectacular mountain and nation park, I often hike the mountain or go for long walks in the nation park, certainly lovely views from the mountain and sea to mountain. I would recommend to any visitor to visit Mt Taranaki at least once.
Why does it seem like every time someone talks about a volcano or fault line it's always overdue?
because if it is currently erupting it would be called a news broadcast rather than a documentary ?
@@dennischen6127 Good point!
Better content.
If they're talking about it, then that's a good sign. It's the ones you *don't* see that get you...
narratives like tickiing bombs
Dangerous volcano islands: *exist*
People: *_"L E T ' S B U I L D"_*
To be fair, most volcanos in this country (New Zealand) are extinct
@@AstralPhnx What about Taupo?
Tornado alley .... “this sounds like a nice place to live, I hope the insurance rates are reasonable ....”
One reason is that volcanic soil is so good for agriculture.
@@dixiescents Taupo big boi
Taranaki is known as home-mountain to several Māori people. It’s also regarded as one of the most sacred locations in New Zealand.
Also the view out the kitchen window of my great-grandmother's house...
Ko Taranaki te Maunga
How recent did it become sacred?
@@grancitodos7318 Hundereds of years ago
@@fallenangel_899 I think that you have been brain washed and scammed.
I'm loving these new Zealand videos. I've always been astounded by this flying past Taranaki
There's another large circle visible from space near Ouadane, Mauritania called the Richat Structure.
I hope Tom covers this. The Atlantis theory's about the place are really interesting.
Mauritania is a very scary place though.
eye of the sahara?
svahn They’d be more interesting if Atlantis existed
@@svahn1 More like flat earth grade nonsense, unless oceans were like 2 km deeper than today...
Thanks Tom.. great perspective. I grew up climbing this mountain.
On a night climb (Approx 1982) as we entered the crater we noticed a strong H2S / sulfur smell... living up to Alpine club tradition we ran away.
Title : "The Circle visible from Space"
Flat-earthers : *Heavy breathing*
@@kevfromnorwichUKGGKev
w h a t
@@TheGuyThatsNotFunny Rope & Directions to a local bridge do you ?
@RayRexDex bruh what
Marie Maye MENDOZA think of it like the difference between cutting out a circle on paper compared to something a lot thicker like card board for example they look the same from the top but it’s different on the side, people instead of calling it a disc say circle
People: Lets declare this a nature reserve in order to protect plants and wildlife from farming.
Also people: And lets confine this nature reserve to the exact blast radius from that volcano.
gives a convenient scapegoat for the convenient destruction of the entire region nice and succinctly though!
Sam Deen It’s not permanent. Look at Mount St. Helens. A couple of decades later, the area had recovered.
Also people: Let's build a city closer to this volcano
Plant life recovers from volcanos and such remarkably well, especially since volcanic soil is extremely fertile. As long as the park boundries are kept in place after it goes off, the forest would be well on is way back up within the decade.
@TheAfrikaKorps The Earth will be fine. But we won't.
Credit where credits due, this was not only informative but extremely well presented. No over rambling just facts
I used to live in Oakura, Taranaki. Wake up to a view of the sea or turn around and have a view of the mountain, absolutely amazing place.
Oakura beach is my favourite in NZ! Absolute gem
Ha, i live at Fort St George, just down the road. 🤣
It was amazing until it became a virtual rich white ghetto for European (especially British) expats. Not a friendly and welcoming place if you look like a typical rural Taranakian. Only place in the region other than rich New Plymouth neigbourhoods where i've seen countless people get the stink eye (looked down at)
@@dxfifa Thats why they built that "green school" there, so wealthy neo hippies could send their kids there😏 In the 90s and 2000s it was rich Americans that it was full of, because of the oil industry. Its not remotely the same place i lived in during the 80s. I moved down the coast, but already the land developers have caught up, multi million dollar houses going up everywhere, as its being promoted as "The" place to live. A real estate agent told us that during the AK lockdowns there were 20,000 Aucklanders looking to move down to Taranaki.......Kewl😏
I've climbed Taranaki before, though I didn't make the summit, and its an amazing climb. Its a steep and challenging climb and once you get up onto the rocky stretch near the top, which is where I called it quits, the view is stunning. The lack of heavy pollution means that on a good day you can see all the way to the ocean.
The ocean isn't that far away. On a good day you can see Taranaki from Wellington, on a fairly normal day you can see it from Ruapehu
@@ahsdfkdasdahdkas2887 I work on an American definition of a "good day" where you can't see more than a few miles from the top of a mountain even without clouds.
On a good day you can see all the way to Taranaki and the ocean beyond from Tongariro. Not being able to see it from Taranaki would be concerning (or you're on the wrong side of the mountain I guess).
Drove past Taranaki twice and both times it was covered in cloud. Then a few years ago I was flinging past it and saw it in all its glory, truly a spectacular sight.
and I thought it was some kind of a shadow....
I did too haha.
Its the ufo from independence day 2
:-D
@@Lorem_the_Ipsum that movie sucked.
@@TheCaptainSplatter you are not only right, you are smart
Me a subscriber from Taranaki: "Hey.. that's Taranaki!"
oh so you really are a Kiwi?
@@outrighteight8205 Maybe not. Where I come from most refer to it as Mt Egmont.
@@zogzog1063 oh, learn something new everyday so you do
@@zogzog1063 yep, Mount Egmont, then Taranaki now they want another name, as a local I can't even pronounce.
I live in the danger zone, Lepperton
me too
as someone in nz seeing that circle was always so mesmerizing every single time
Go Taranaki maunga, ka mau te wehi. Thanks for putting this put to the world.
This is such a clear example of deforestation I am shocked it's not used more often. Glad to know it's protected though!
Let's also talk about Lake Taupo, under the lake water is another volcano. But not just any volcano, it's a supervolcano. And if it was to erupt, most of the North Island of New Zealand would be covered in sulphurous ash that would kill everything
the eruption that made the crater was the 7th largest known eruption of all time, if it erupted at that scale again, most of the southern hemisphere would be inhospitable for at least a century
Fingers crossed 🤞
That volcano is capable of a global extinction event
It is insanely unlikely and "supervolcano" isn't very scientific
@@Dreuft "It is insanely unlikely and "supervolcano" isn't very scientific"
It's happened before, several times.
If the supervolcano Taupo blows again, as it has in the past (it is still active), it'll be all over for New Zealand, curtains for up to 80% of its population should they not evacuate (i.e leave the whole island.).
You always get to see something exciting and different on Tom's channel. I have never been disappointed!
+1
"Do enjoy the view, because at some point it's going to change" - this should be said about literally everything in the universe :P
The vast majority - almost everything we see - has already changed, much of it millions of years ago. In fact, much of it probably isn't there any more.
@@paulhaynes8045 the sky is just like a big picture
The moon?
Wow. As a geology student I think that this is the most beautifully-written homage to a volcano on youtube 😢 well done Tom!
Tom, every story you tell is interesting, regardless of the content. Really enjoy your videos.
every shot of him is enthralling, even when hes not talking
@@blueshirt1619 that made me laugh.
The title : the visible circle from space
My brain : earth's niple
Basically this is a nude pic
r/cursedcomments
niple
r/blursed
*earth's areola
Calling a river or mountain a person, this is the best thing that the greatest legal minds of the world could come up with? That's humanity for you.
That is one of, if not the best large scale circular boundary I've seen/known of yet. That alone just made my day (and this now is on my bucket list)
I really appreciate that you recognize the fact that you're a British tourist, and there are some things that you aren't qualified to talk about. There are a lot of TH-camrs that pretend they know everything when they don't, and I appreciate that you're not one of them.
It's area is significantly massive you can still see it when zoomed out of the whole New Zealand map
I remember finding this on Google Earth, by accident.
Same!
L F I just found it!
@John Citizen Didn’t trust its Tinder pro.
it's my home! so proud!
I’ve been to taranaki and the view from the top is breathtaking. Hope you’re enjoying our amazing country Tom :)
New Zealand's geography contains some unique features which makes it's recent geological history CRITICAL in understanding some of the finer points of plate tectonics. Some of it's features had developed SO QUICKLY compared with accepted opinions of just 40 years ago that significant assumptions in tectonic theory needed to be dropped.
Wait
That’s where I live
Nice.
oh hai mark, nice to see you here
Ready your camera for the next 50 years ples
Same
Oh hi. Me too.
same here
There's a smol heart at the bottom of the volcano at 2:04
While that sign only mentions dogs, cats are also not allowed as both cats and dogs pose a threat to the native wildlife there like flightless brown kiwis. NZ isn't the only place whose wildlife was destroyed by non-native creatures like cats. In Hawaii, feral cats as well as mongooses have contributed to the steep decline of honeycreepers. Hawaii historically didn't have any natural predators; thus, they didn't need any defense and so the cats caught them unaware.
Cats are indeed more of a problem, but I don’t think their have been any recorded cases of day trippers or hikers taking their cats with them…
So if the park is legally defined as a circle 6 miles in diameter from the peak of the volcano, and the volcano collapses in an eruption, does that mean the borders of the park will change?
If by 'park' you mean 'steaming pile of ash', then......meh
Legally it would, realistically they'd probably change the area of the park to maintain it as it is now. Not that it would matter in the aftermath of an eruption, who knows maybe they'd expand it since you'd have to make some sort of exclusion zone anyways.
No, it'll stay the way it is now. The circle has been drawn. Would be ridiculous to change it
@@hedgehog3180 last eruption wasn't much..
*6 miles in radius
I live right on the coast next to Mt. Taranaki and I have hiked it multiple times and wondered about how round the tree line was. It's cool to have someone recognise it.
Thank you again Tom, for teaching me something I did not know about my own country.
If i had a teacher one tenth as good as Tom here when i was back at school some 35 years ago i can say for certain i would not be watching his YT vids, i'd be out there living them, thanks Tom... i always feel educated that little bit more after watching one of these :-)
I used to live in New Plymouth (which is in the Taranaki area). It’s cool to see you record there, and interesting to learn more about the mountain I saw on a daily basis!
I learn something new about my own country every day
I visited Mt. Taranaki in 2013. Amazing view, amazing mountain. One of my best moments from 14 months in New Zealand 💚
This looks like a glitch in Civ 5 or City Skylines
It's just an unexplored tile, gotta get a scout over there
Congratulations! The discovery of Mount Taranaki has increased 🙂 Happiness in the empire.
Output if worked: 2 🍏 3 🙂
@@HampshireBrony Ha nice. Now I want to go play some Civ.
@@HampshireBrony*China forward settles right beside you and the mountain*
Gotta hurry up. We’re about to be taken out by Ghandi and his nukes
that circle shows just how much of a plague we can be hopefully other countries will preserve vast areas of their countries like this one we need it
Thanks for all the videos on my country Tom! It's lovely to see the parts of our country that weren't in a movie talked about. I'd say it's a fair comment that Aotearoa New Zealand is geographically like the best of everywhere else, thrown together and then shrunk a little in the wash. Cheers
Video Suggestion: a video on some of the differences between languages that have had a writing system for most of its history compared to languages that were oral for most of its history
Shania definitely, loved the language files
All natural languages have been oral for most of their history
@@DrRiq
Depends on how you define its history. If you look far enough back, then most languages become things like proto Germanic or proto Indo-European, but to what degree are you really looking at the same language?
I would guess that Shania is more referring to the difference between languages that have maybe a century of written records versus languages that have not changed significantly in their many centuries of written tradition.
I think it would be difficult to isolate the difference that makes, however, given that languages with such different written histories will also have so many unrelated differences.
I feel like that would be kinda impossible because like where do we mark the "birth" of a language? Like for example the Scandinavian languages could be said to have had writing for their entire history as they only diverged in the middle ages but I don't think it would make much sense to separate them from old Norse as they're not all that different. We also run into another problem here and that is that while writing was present in Scandinavia at this point it was Latin not any native language so like does that qualify as Danish, Norwegian and Swedish having writing or does that only start once we reach the reformation and books started being made in those languages? And continuing along here Old Norse actually did have it's own writing system which was written in Old Norse in the form of Runes but that system died out and was replaced by the Latin alphabet and this also complicates things. And what about the other languages that switched writing system?
It probably would make more sense to ask what are the differences between languages that recently adopted writing systems and languages that have had them for like a few hundred years.
i want an overview of non-indoeuropean language history, in particular asian languages, in particular chinese korean and japanese, cause they have so much shared culture and all have used chinese's writing system, but i dont know the lay of the land linguistically speaking. anyhow know a good lil source for this?
Great video. You have a speaking talent, and aren't self-absorbed, this is a breath of fresh air.
Seeing this makes me sad for some reason... Just seeing that greeny forest, imagine how nice it'd be if the entire island was like that
Damn as a Kiwi I wish it could be (mostly) back as native forest
AND ALSO NEW ZEALAND ISN'T ONE ISLAND
its 3 big ones and lots of small ones
We can if we all just stopped eating meat because majority of those farms are for animals and well, people like me aren't ready to give up our life of meat
@@fallenangel_899 Actually, they are dairy farms, providing the world with a source of quality protein.
@@KiwiHobbitful What I said is the same thing
Most of it is
Been loving the featured videos out of NZ, hope you’ve enjoyed our gorgeous country
"The Circle Visible From Space"
I'm so glad this wasn't just an elaborate joke by Tom at the expense of my mum 😢
As a Kiwi I am honored that Tom has come to our country. Dunedins steepest street and this. Gahh... this guy is amazing
This is a sick story to cover. All of New Zealand seems so interesting. Thanks for taking the time to share it with us.
Thanks for the video, living in Auckland for 22 years, learned something new. 👍🏻
In all seriousness, the landscape looks magnificent, it's the beauty of nature.
Hi again
@Sonic The Egghog I love him 😂😂 I see him so much that I subscribed to him.
I mean fair play for being everywhere, it's not easy.
Also, he's not begging for likes or subscribers, so it's ok
I'm just glad no one has yet suggested it is a UFO landing site and called those who disagree "sheep."
It's in New Zealand, bruh. Of course the ones who disagree are sheep. The ones who agree are sheep too. Everyone's sheep, and the circle was put there by a Balrog.
baahaahaahaa
New Zealand is amazing. Highly recommend the visit for anyone wanting to go.
A good deal of NZ, is ready to go for the big one at any time. We've just accepted it. Thanks for telling NZ stories! It's cool as.
Holy crap, I've actually come across this landmark completely by accident while browsing Google maps. It really captured my eye back then, and it still does!
So if it has rights as a person and it erupts and kills somebody will the mountain go to prison?
I clicked on this video completely not expected Tom to be talking about the country that I live in lmao
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stratovolcano
/ˌstratəʊvɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/
noun
a volcano built up of alternate layers of lava and ash.
A literal mountain of explosions.
You can certainly feel the layers when climbing it. There are nice, hard rock sections of lava and extremely slippery sections of ash.
I must say the view is amazing, I've flown it a couple times and always have been blown away
"Blown away"; that's an unfortunate phrase to use when talking about a volcano!
"The cone of the mountain could collapse entirely..." Mt St Helens has entered the chat....
Krakatoa says *Hi*
Mt. Toba : "Yo!"
Don't worry when Mt St Helens blows up it will be a fine swell day.
Never mind the possibility of a Taranaki cone collapse the real elephant in the room is the Taupo Caldera 170 km away. If that pops , the whole planet will know about it.
I lived around 40km away from the volcano in a town called Hawera for a few years, and it was great being able to look out my window when I woke up and see its perfect cone shape covered in snow during the winter. This has nothing to do with the video, I just remembered it and felt like I had to write it down.
Kaif Qais dub h
I've seen it exactly one (since I was in Hawera for one night). Yup - totally agree with ya, bro.
That felt like a really long and informative 3 minutes in a good way.
Great Video :) Thanks again. Climbed it, amazing place. Greetings from New Zealand.
"MOT" is carved into the fence crossbeam, right next to TOM.
i have hiked to the summit of Mount Taranaki (Egmont) 5 times and can say its an amazing place a great tribute to how New Zealand was note mount taranaki (egmont) is considered very dormant and unlikely to erupt
I have climmed Taranaki. The view is amazing.
I've lived in New Zealand my whole life and have never seen an aerial view of Mt. Taranaki, this is wild
Google Earth has been around for a very long time now.
Aloha 🌺from northern Germany. Thank you for your amazing report. Your english is good to understand for me. 😍🙏
My home!! And yes, Mount Taranaki finally erupting has always been one of my biggest fears.
I don't worry about it. At the end of the day, death is the same state as pre birth. Do you remember before you were born?
I love that "No dogs : not even in your car" sign! We could use that sign all over here in the states. Awesome $100000 fine! So good!
i drove there with a motorbike up to the lookout point, interesting ride, if you are from Europe, nice view from there....
New Plymouth is at the coast...its a tiny town, for European eyes, like most settlements on NZ, no historic background...
been to NZ one time, nice people, nice nature, thats it....
no history to discover...
maybe the set of the Lord of the Rings, i passed it, didnt stopped...
been there, went home, never will go there again, to far away and the Swiss Alpes are nice, too, closer to my home and some of them speaking my language...
and its filled to the rim with historic places.... something i love the most to visit, nature is great but without culture its only nature...
Good video Tom thank you for making this video!!!!
I remember finding this on google maps and wondering what was going on with this. Thanks for the video, Tom!
So absolutley stunning! I would love to go there
It's weird, right now I'm studying the Taranaki wars, it's nice to hear you say "I'm un qualified to talk about this" because after months of looking at the causes and consequences, it's still difficult to understand
I used to live on Von Tempsky Street. There's a name you'll no doubt get to know well then :)
To overly simplify the Land Wars; the colonial government and settlers wanted the land and sovereignty at the expense of the Maori, who wanted to stay where they were and live how they wanted, because this is *their* country after all. Again, this is overly simplified, since the Maori iwi were never united in a common goal.
Some wanted to fight against the settlers, others allied to the government for a plethora of reasons including revenge on rival iwi, preferential trade and business, access to firearms... It's both a simple to understand series of conflicts, and a fiendishly complicated range of individual and group motivations.
Hey Tom! I see this mountain every single day, so thanks for reminding me it might blow up!! :)))))) Good video!
Me too, but it's a fantastic sight.
love how we always know what happened even b4 10 toes ever rose from the ground. We even know what our galaxy looks like, best camera guy ever! He stayed, just sent the pics back cuz hes a real one. And shout out to that courier who got it here years ago. Amazing humans...
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