On 9 December 2019, Whakaari / White Island, an active stratovolcano island in New Zealand's northeastern Bay of Plenty region, explosively erupted. [3] . The island was a popular tourist destination, known for its volcanic activity, and 47 people were on the island at the time.

Whakaari / White Island is an andesite – dacite stratovolcano that consists of two overlapping volcanic cones, which are the Ngatoro and Central cones. The Ngatoro Cone is extinct and partially eroded. The amphitheatre -shaped Central Cone is an active cone.

Dec 20, 2022 · Whakaari (White Island) volcano, located the near Bay of Plenty in New Zealand. What happened at Whakaari? On Monday, Dec. 9, 2019 at 2:11 p.m., the Whakaari volcano exploded in a series of...

Mar 20, 2025 · White Island volcanic eruption of 2019, volcanic eruption on December 9, 2019, on Whakaari/White Island, located off the coast of eastern North Island, New Zealand, which resulted in the deaths of 22 individuals and injured numerous others.

Sep 8, 2020 · This eruption took place on Whakaari/White Island, New Zealand, on 27 April 2016, more than three years before the catastrophe in December last year that claimed the lives of 21 people (17 of them Australians) and injured 26 others.

Feb 27, 2025 · Whakaari/White Island, island in the Bay of Plenty, 43 miles (69 km) west of Cape Runaway, eastern North Island, New Zealand. An active volcano, it is the top of a submarine vent at the northern end of the Taupo-Rotorua Volcanic Zone. An eruption of the volcano in December 2019 killed 22 visitors.

Jul 14, 2023 · Survivors of one of New Zealand’s worst natural disasters have described the searing pain of being lashed by burning sand, ash and rocks during a volcanic eruption on Whakaari or White Island in...

The ruling absolves the company from paying millions of dollars in restitutions to the families of those bereaved in the 2019 explosion on Whakaari, also known as White Island, and two dozen seriously injured survivors.

Dec 14, 2022 · Jesse Langford, whose story is chronicled in the new Netflix documentary "The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari," speaks with PEOPLE about surviving the eruption that killed his family

Whakaari has long been cavalier. In 1914, miners drained the crater lake to uncover deeper deposits of sulphur. Geologists suspect this affected the stability of the crater cliffs as, in September that same year, a 300-metre-wide chunk collapsed.