Impact Crater
This fenced off earthy hole is an impact crater, where a large ejected rock from the 2012 Te Maari eruption landed.
This image is from the presentation "Lake Taupo, Rotorua, Hawke's Bay and Tongariro - Middle Earth Meander - New Zealand 2016".

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