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Looking towards Wynyard Quarter from Auckland Sky Tower, with approximate boundary drawn in red. The Wynyard Quarter (historically also known as the Western Reclamation, Wynyard Point, Wynyard Wharf or Tank Farm) is a reclaimed piece of land on the Waitematā Harbour at the western edge of the Auckland waterfront, New Zealand.
Located near the approaches to the Auckland Harbour Bridge, it was created by a series of eruptions approximately 185,000 years ago. [1] Onepoto and neighbouring Tank Farm were fresh water lakes when sea levels were lower using the Last Glacial Maximum.
Māori settlement of the Auckland Region began around the 13th or 14th centuries. [18] [19] The Tainui migratory canoe visited Northcote, stopping at Ngā Huru-a-Taiki, a sacred tree on the cliffs south-east of Tank Farm. [20] The Shoal Bay area was used to harvest shellfish, and the volcanic soil at Northcote allowed for kūmara cultivation. [21]
Tank farm may refer to the: Alternate name for an oil terminal or oil depot, a facility for storage of liquid petroleum products or petrochemicals; Tank Farm, also known as 'Tuff Crater', a volcanic crater in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand; Western Reclamation, also known as the 'Tank Farm', on the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New ...
[39] [40] Onepoto and Tank Farm erupted an estimated 187,600 and 181,000 years ago respectively. [ 34 ] Three volcanic features can be found at Devonport : Takarunga / Mount Victoria , the highest volcano on the North Shore at 81 metres (266 ft), [ 41 ] and Maungauika / North Head , the south-east headland of the North Shore located at the ...
Naval Operating Base Auckland, FPO# 1500; Hobson Park Hospital, 1,000 beds (Navy Mobile Hospital No.4) Fuel Tank Farm, Northcote, Auckland; Avondale Naval Hospital, Avondale, Auckland, 2,000 bed, built by Seebees 25th CB; Mechanics Bay, Auckland, 1,340 Navy men, crew off ships docked in the harbour for repair. Sylvia Park Stores, Mount ...
Te Hopua a Rangi, also known as Gloucester Park, is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field in Auckland, New Zealand, and is located in Onehunga. Its 300 m wide, sediment-filled explosion (maar) crater was used as a boat harbour in early European times and known first as Onehunga Basin then as Geddes Basin.
Little Rangitoto, officially known as Maungarāhiri / Little Rangitoto, and also as Rangitoto-iti, is a volcano in the Auckland volcanic field in Remuera, New Zealand. [1] The name Maungarāhiri refers to Rāhiri, an ancestor of Ngāpuhi, who journeyed around the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui). [2]