Tongariro National Park, on the North Island of New Zealand, is the country's oldest national park and one of the first in the world. It was created when the Ngāti Tūwharetoa paramount chief Te Heuheu Tūkino IV gave the sacred volcanic peaks of Tongariro, Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu to the Crown to protect them from being divided up and sold. UNESCO inscribed it as a World Heritage Site in 1990 for its natural values and in 1993 also for the cultural significance of the mountains to the Māori, the first property to be recognized under the revised criteria for cultural landscapes. Ngāuruhoe played Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings films, and Ruapehu is an active volcano with ski fields.
Before and after
- 8 December 1886Birth of Diego Rivera
- 1887Michelson–Morley experiment
- from 1887 to 1954French Indochina
- 1887Founding of Celtic F.C.
- 1887Establishment of Tongariro National Park
- 1887Founding of Nice Observatory
- 1887Heinrich Hertz generates radio waves
- 31 May 1887Birth of Saint-John Perse
- 24 June 1887Birth of Marc Chagall
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