Purchas Hill
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Purchas Hill (also Te Tauoma) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field. Purchas Hill was a twin-cratered scoria cone around 50 metres high, located north of Maungarei / Mount Wellington, before it was predominantly quarried away. The scoria cone sat in the middle of its large explosion crater with a surrounding tuff ring. It erupted about 10,000 years ago, shortly before the eruption of its larger neighbour, Mount Wellington.
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College Road, Ōrākei Stonefields
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| N -36.887138 ° | E 174.847476 ° |
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College Road
College Road
1072 Ōrākei, Stonefields
Auckland, New Zealand
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