The Pouakai Range is an eroded and heavily vegetated stratovolcano in the North Island of New Zealand, located northwest of Mount Taranaki.

The range is surrounded by a ring plain of lahar deposits from a massive collapse that has been dated as roughly 250,000 years old.

[2] The region has been reshaped more recently after each cone collapse from Mount Taranaki.

[1] Present-day seismicity and stress directions in eastern Taranaki are consistent with back-arc extension processes.

"[4] It can be postulated that all volcanoes in the Taranaki Volcanic Lineament have had a similar potential for instability and were stratovolcanoes of similar size and shape to the present Mount Taranaki between major collapse events given their debris plains.