Frying Pan Lake, New Zealand
![A small lake surrounded by scrubby green vegetation under a partly cloudy sky. The right side of the lake shore includes a tall mass of partly vegetated rock.](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/full_width/public/media/images/Frying_Pan_pano_20230207.jpg?itok=tDJMOFfy)
Detailed Description
Frying Pan Lake (also called Waimangu Cauldron), in New Zealand, sits within Echo Crater, which formed during the 1886 eruption of Tarawera. A hydrothermal explosion from the crater in 1917 resulted in the formation of the hot spring "lake" by 1918. On the night of February 22, 1973, a hydrothermal explosion from the lake shore destroyed a set of silica terraces. USGS Photo by Mike Poland, February 7, 2023.
Sources/Usage
Public Domain.