Research - Mangere mountain

Mangere Mountain = one of the largest volcanic cones in the Auckland Volcanic Field, with a peak 106 metres above sea level, and was the site of a major pā. Many of the pā's earthworks are still very evident.

The mountain features two large craters. The volcano has a wide crater with a lava dome near its centre, a feature shared by no other volcano in Auckland.

• last erupted approximately 18,000 years
• one of the largest and best preserved of Auckland's volcanic cones - much of the archaeological environment on the mountain remains, such as kumara pits, garden terraces, walled garden mounds and stone boundary walls

Early map by Hochstetter of Auckland's geographic features - volcanic cones and lakes.“The istmus of Auckland with its extinct volcanoes, by Dr. Ferdinand von Hochstetter 1859”.