Pukaki Lagoon
Pukaki crater.
Pukaki Lagoon, located in the suburb of Mangere,[1] is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field. It has a 600 m wide explosion crater, with a surrounding tuff ring. After eruption about 65,000 yrs ago the crater filled with freshwater and became a lake. It was breached by the sea as sea-level rise after the end of the Last Ice Age about 8,000 yrs ago and became a tidal lagoon. This was dammed and drained and used as a speedway from 1929 into the 1930s (Henning's Speedway). It is now farmland.
References
- ↑ "Significant volcanic feature secure for public use | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
- City of Volcanoes: A geology of Auckland - Searle, Ernest J.; revised by Mayhill, R.D.; Longman Paul, 1981. First published 1964. ISBN 0-582-71784-1.
- Volcanoes of Auckland: The Essential Guide. Hayward, B.W., Murdoch, G., Maitland, G.; Auckland University Press, 2011.
External links
- Photo of Henning's Speedway.
- Photographs of Pukaki Lagoon held in Auckland Libraries' heritage collections.
Coordinates: 36°58′59″S 174°48′37″E / 36.982998°S 174.810226°E
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