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Originally Posted by Just Do It!
I believe it is the world's largest volcanic crater. The lake is some 640 square kilometres. The last eruption is recorded in Chinese history and it plunged the world in to darkness for several months.
With much irony, a few years back, on Christmas Day, Jack Ma enquired about whether he could "buy your pond". Imagine that, there could've been bottled Lake Taupo water for sale on AliExpress.
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Toba is the biggest crater Lake. A bit of information. Taupo's Oruanui eruption 26,000+ years ago is rated an 8 on the VEI, the same as Toba. The largest eruption in (recorded) history Tambora, the Oruanui eruption was ten times more powerful and 100 times more powerful than Krakatoa. The Oruanui eruption and the later smaller Hatepe eruption are the biggest explosions on Earth in the past 75,000 years, since Taba. Toba nearly made humans extinct on the planet. People may remember Mt Saint Helens in 1980. Taupo put out 1000 times more material than that eruption. A Supervolcano, and one of the most active. Great.