How was New Zealand formed? Auckland museum

How was New Zealand formed? Auckland museum

We saw this interesting video played in the Volcanoes gallery at Auckland Museum, which shows how the huge eruptions dating back over 26 million years created many of the most iconic landscape features in New Zealand such as Lake Taupo, Rangitoto Island and city Auckland. The information below is from the website https://teara.govt.nz/en/geology-over... "New Zealand is part of a continent called Zealandia, most of which is under the ocean. The country lies across two moving plates – segments of the earth’s crust. As these plates collide, rocks are being pushed up, creating hills and mountains, including the Southern Alps." "About 25 million years ago Zealandia began to split apart. Still mostly under the sea, it now lay at the junction of the Australian and Pacific plates. Close to the plate boundary, part of the sunken continent was pushed up, creating the land area of New Zealand."