Tangiwai Disaster - Auckland Museum

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Title

Tangiwai Disaster - Auckland Museum

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira YouTube

Description

Volcanoes may be vital to life on Earth but they can also obliterate large portions of it. On Christmas Day 1953, 151 people died in theTangiwai Disaster, caused by an earlier eruption at Mt Ruapehu. The Tangiwai Disaster video plays in the Volcanoes gallery at Auckland Museum (see http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/volcanoes), open daily from 10am-5pm.

Format

Video

URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaKo8zL7fa4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Related subjects

Tangiwai / Disaster / Volcanoes / Auckland / Museum

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