Complete the sentence about Mount Tarawera with the correct year: Located 24 kilometres southeast of Rotorua, it consists of a series of rhyolitic lava domes that were fissured down the middle by an explosive basaltic eruption in ______.

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Correct answer: B. 1886

Located 24 kilometres south-east of Rotorua, it is a group of rhyolitic lava domes that split down the middle in the 1886 eruption. It lies in the Ōkataina Caldera.

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