This ruling might not be consistently applied: in 2011, police in Taupo on New Zealand's North Island had to stop using Segways because there is no separate vehicle classification that applies to them, requiring their registration as roadworthy in the same manner as cars.

An example is Taupo District, which is split between four regions, although most of its area falls within the Waikato Region.

Mount Ruapehu, or just Ruapehu, is an active stratovolcano at the southern end of the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand.

It is 23 kilometres northeast of Ohakune and 40 kilometres southwest of the southern shore of Lake Taupo, within Tongariro National Park.

Although the largest concentration of trees is now found on the West Coast of the South Island, the biggest trees tend to be in mixed podocarp forest near Taupo ( e. g., Pureora, Waihaha, and Whirinaki Forests ).

Lake Taupo is a lake situated in the North Island of New Zealand.

It is drained by the Waikato River ( New Zealand's longest river ), while its main tributaries are the Waitahanui River, the Tongariro River, and the Tauranga Taupo River.

It is possible that the Lake Taupo event contributed to starting the Last Glacial Maximum.

Much of the watershed of Lake Taupo is a beech and podocarp forest with associate understory ferns being Blechnum filiforme, Asplenium flaccidum, Doodia media, Hymenophyllum demissum, Microsorum pustulatum and Microsorum scandens, and some prominent associate shrubs being Olearia ranii nd Alseuosmia quercifolia.

The 10-metre-high carving is intended to protect Lake Taupo from volcanic activities underneath.

A district is not always a simple division of a region: several districts lie within two regions, and the Taupo District lies in four.

Queenstown is accessible by road and air but not by rail ( similarly to Taupo and Nelson ).

He is startled when an electronic howling noise booms out across Lake Taupo from the far side.

Taupo ( ) is a town on the shore of Lake Taupo in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand.

It is the seat of the Taupo District Council and lies in the southern Waikato Region.

The name Taupo, by which the town is commonly known, is the shortened version of its full name, Taupō-nui-a-Tia.

Taupo is located at the outlet of Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake, in the northeast part of the lake where it discharges to the Waikato River.

Taupo is a centre of volcanic and geothermal activity and hot springs suitable for bathing are located at several places in the vicinity.

Taupo is situated on a stretch of State Highway 1, running concurrently with State Highway 5.

Hilltop is the location of Hilltop School, Taupo Intermediate School, the Taupo Hospital, the Taharepa shopping centre and the Hilltop shopping centre.

* The volcano associated with Lake Taupo in New Zealand erupts, one of the largest on Earth in the last 5, 000 years.

The Community Radio Network was established in 1998, with all local stations one off stations having local content outside breakfast replaced with a network feed from Taupo, at the same time Classic Hits FM replaced local programming outside breakfast with networked programming from Auckland.

North of the industrial area is the Taupo Swamp, a flax swamp, one of the largest of its type in the southern half of the North Island.

It is traditionally recorded that one of the great fighting chiefs of the Ngati Kahupungapunga, Tokoroa by name, was slain by Ngati Raukawa during the siege of Pōhaturoa, a volcanic plug adjacent to Atiamuri, 27 km south of Tokoroa on the main Taupo highway.

The Rotorua Caldera is one of several large volcanoes located in the Taupo Volcanic Zone on the North Island of New Zealand.

In early 1865 emissaries carrying the smoke-dried decapitated heads were sent from Taranaki to chief Hirini Te Kani at Poverty Bay via Wanganui and Taupo in two parties – one via Rotorua, Whakatane, Opotiki, and East Cape, and the other through the centre of the island via Ruatahuna and Wairoa.

Disgruntled by this lukewarm response, Te Kooti and his people, maybe by now as many as 800, returned to Tokaanu on the southern shore of Lake Taupo on 18 August, and then a few kilometres further south to Te Porere five km south west of Lake Rotoaira, where he began to build himself an earthern gunfighter style Pā.

Wairakei is the name of a power station, small settlement and a geothermal area a few kilometres north of Taupo, in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand, on the Waikato River.

Urban areas in the region include the towns of Taihape in the south, Ohakune the carrot-growing capital of NZ in the west, and Taupo in the north, with Turangi a major trout fishing base at the south of Lake Taupo and by the Kaweka Ranges in the east, The majority of the population of the area lives close to the shores of Lake Taupo, with some smaller settlements to the east of the volcanoes.

Battles have taken place in towns and cities all around New Zealand, and at public events such as University Orientation weeks and Capping Events, Folk Festivals, Local Carnivals " Local Defencers Prepare to Defend Taupo " Taupo Weekender < 4 December 1987 </ ref >, Wine and Food Festivals, Snow Festivals, Swimming Pool Openings, School Gala Days, and Summer City programs.

** Lake Taupo ( New Zealand )

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Other services provided by the department include a translation service, publication of the New Zealand Gazette ( the official newspaper of the Government of New Zealand ), a flag hire service, management of VIP visits to New Zealand, running the Lake Taupo harbourmaster's office ( under a special agreement with the local iwi ) and the administration of offshore islands.

It rises in the eastern slopes of Mount Ruapehu, joining the Tongariro River system and emptying into Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake.

The Taupo Volcanic Zone is a highly active volcanic V shaped area in the North Island of New Zealand that is spreading east-west at the rate of about 8mm per year.

See also List of volcanoes in New Zealand # Taupo Volcanic Zone.

* New Zealand's volcanoes: The Taupo Volcanic Centre

** New Zealand, Taupo and Coromandel volcanic zones

Radio New Zealand International broadcasts on shortwave and DRM to neighbouring countries in the Pacific from transmitters located at Rangitaiki, near Taupo, in the North Island.

It becomes openly noticeable south of Taupo, with it reaching peak intensity in Canterbury and other southern parts of New Zealand.

* The Taupo Volcanic Zone in the north east North Island of New Zealand

The Huka Falls are a set of waterfalls on the Waikato River that drains Lake Taupo in New Zealand.

The area was first settled by the Māori people early in their occupation of New Zealand, and the major Taupo Pa was nearby.