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White Island - New Zealand volcanoes
White Island is the most active volcano in New Zealand. The crater continuously erupts ash and chemicals such as sulphur and silica. The crater also has a lake in the middle as the rainfall here is high. The island sits on one of the most active plate boundaries in the world where the Pacific plate is dragged beneath the Indo-Australian plate, producing enough heat to melt the rocks and feed the volcano.
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