The cone-shaped mountain,largely covered with snow and ice year-round is spewing lava and sending ash 8 kilometres up the sky.
The person died while in Auckland's Middlemore Hospital on Sunday night.
Australians killed or injured in the White Island disaster - and their families - will not be entitled to sue any negligent parties as they could in Australia,Britain or Canada.
The mood was sombre as the Ovation of the Seas cruise ship returned to Sydney on Monday,with many crying as they hugged family and friends waiting for them.
To see the world is to put yourself in the way of potential harm. There is no getting around that fact.
Brendan Paterson and his son didn't get a chance to thank Hayden Marshall-Inman for scooping them out of the water after their tour boat caught fire.
Krystal Browitt has been remembered as an'absolutely gorgeous girl',while her sister and dad fight for their lives in The Alfred hospital's burns unit after the White Island volcano eruption.
Twenty-one-year-old Krystal Eve Browitt has been identified by New Zealand police as a victim of the volcano eruption on White Island.
"It was a huge relief"to find out his parents were alive,said the son of Nick and Marion London as he opened up about the challenges they face after suffering burns to over 50 per cent of their bodies.
During period of heightened activity in 2013 NZ government scientists were banned from White Island but tourists continued to be guided up to its crater lake.
Many of the burns victims of the White Island volcano eruption will need skin transplants. Where does this skin come from? And how do transplants work?