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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.
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.
Boggust Park Crater is a volcano in the Auckland volcanic field, New Zealand. Located in the Favona area of the Māngere suburb, it is one of Auckland city's older volcanoes. It was first recognised as a volcano in 2011. [1] The park in which it is located is named after Ralph Boggust, former superintendent of Manukau Parks Dept. [2]
Styaks Swamp is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field, ... During the early colonial era, the volcano was a park of John Styak's farm. [2]
Sports field built into the crater of Robertson Hill volcano. Robertson Hill (also Sturges Park, Mount Robertson or Te Tapuwae a Mataoho) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field in New Zealand. It erupted approximately 24,300 years ago. The hill, alongside Māngere Lagoon, Waitomokia, Crater Hill, Kohuora and Pukaki Lagoon, is one of the volcanic features collectively referred ...
Hampton Park scoria cone. Hampton Park is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field.A small scoria cone reaching 35 metres (114 ft 10 in) above sea level, with a shallow crater around 50 metres (164 ft 1 in) wide, which has been modified by quarrying. [1]
In the 1700s and early 1800s, the volcano was the site of Ngāti Whātua-o-Ōrākei seasonal farms. [3] This scoria cone had a peak 75 metres above sea level (30m higher than the surrounding land) before it was mostly quarried away. The quarry site is now Little Rangitoto Reserve, having been partly filled with refuse in the 1950s. Remnants of ...