Crossword-Solution: RUAPEHU 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Standing in the north, grand and solitary, was the massive blue-white shape of old Ruapehu, his fires quenched these many years, and, near him, the active cone of Ngaruahoe, whose angry, ominous smoke-clouds rained ashes sometimes on the surrounding country, but more often his wisp of yellowy-white smoke trailed lazily to leeward, or mounted heavenwards in cumulous shape.

Sometimes, when he had been out here ready to start mustering at dawn, he had watched the first glow of coming daylight on the summit of Ruapehu, and again, at the end of a long summer day when the smoke of many bush-fires was in the air, he had watched for an hour or more the delicate lilacs, the greens and blues, reds and golds, the shadows deepening beneath the buttresses, and the slow melting of the last warm glow into the cold steely colour of night.

There are numerous mountain ranges in the North especially, which are mostly covered with forests, and three giant snow-capped mountains,--Ruapehu, Tongariro, and Mount Egmont,--ranging from seven to ten thousand feet each in height.

From one of these summits was seen, nearly one hundred miles away on the far horizon, the broad, bold, snow-covered mountain Ruapehu, ten thousand feet high.

What delightful views the 1898 stamps give of Mount Cook, Lake Wakatipu, Mount Ruapehu, Lake Taupo, the Pink Terrace of Rotomahana and Milford Sound--names which to many of us are mere places mentioned in dry geography manuals, but here revealed in all their glory! From New Zealand let us wander to Tasmania.