Tongariro National Park is the oldest national park in New Zealand. In 1993, it became the first World Heritage Site to be recognized as a cultural landscape. This means it contains natural environments that should be protected both because they are unique,and because they are culturally important to the native people.
The park located near the center of the North Island of newzealand covers about 800 square kilo It protects various different types of landscape.There are mountaintop glaviers and snow-covered ski field hot springs and lakes that form in the craters of the park volcanoes and lush areas of rain forest