The lakes of both Rotorua and Taupo occupy calderas left from enormous prehistoric eruptions, and magma lies at shallow depths beneath a number of centres.

That’s a title the US appears on course to lose – a fall from grace that may prove irreversible. The domestic debacle unleashed by the pandemic, and global perceptions of American selfishness and incompetence, could change everything.

Down through the clearing, thereʼs a feller buncher, snatching batches of small trunks, delimbing them, and bucking the logs to fixed lengths.

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