Glaciers and volcanoes

Glaciers around Ruapehu (2797 m), North Island, New Zealand. Failure of an ice dam resulted in a massive debris flow (lahar) which swept away a railway bridge and led to the Christmas 1953 railway disaster. During eruptions of Ruapehu (as in 1995) the lake is also the cause for many lahars. JA

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