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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.
The Auckland volcanic field is an area of monogenetic volcanoes covered by much of the metropolitan area of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, located in the North Island. The approximately 53 volcanoes [ 2 ] in the field have produced a diverse array of maars (explosion craters), tuff rings , scoria cones, and lava flows.
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 ...
The cone is a dormant volcano and its summit, at 196 metres (643 ft) above sea level, is the highest natural point on the Auckland isthmus. The majestic bowl-like crater is 50 metres (160 ft) deep. The volcano erupted from three craters 28,000 years ago, with the last eruptions from the southern crater filling the northern craters. [2]
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.
Map of selected volcanic features of the Auckland Volcanic Field. Clicking on the map enlarges it, and enables mouseover of volcano name/wikilink. The type of volcanic eruption (some are composite) is indicated by scoria cone (red #ff0000), or phreatomagmatic eruptions tuff ring (red-brown #a52a2a), maar (purple #990099) and basaltic shield ...
Puhinui Pond Crater, located near the reserve entrance, contains a farm pond. The crater is 200 m × 150 m (660 ft × 490 ft) across and the nearly complete surrounding tuff cone rim rises 1.5–2 m (4.9–6.6 ft) above the pond.
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.