Dome Shelter on Ruapehu is to be closed within the next year. Administered jointly by the Department of Conservation and GNS Science (formerly the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences) the shelter is officially a volcanic monitoring station and the equipment it houses will be moved to a nearby monitoring site and the hut dismantled. […]
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