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Meet the Locals videos
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      • Visiting a live volcano
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Earth science lab

How you can meet the locals:

Volcanoes

Volcanoes on the Institute of Geonuclear Sciences (GNS) website

Teaching resource:

Shake, rattle and roll

Watch this video about White Island, an active volcano offshore from Whakatane.  Learn how scientists monitor this live volcano.

View the Earth science lab video
(4 minute clip on TVNZ video player)

Click this image from the Earth Science Lab clip to view the video. Image copyright: TVNZ.
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