Waitomokia

Viticulture in the Waitomokia explosion crater.

Waitomokia (also Gabriel Hill or Mount Gabriel ) is one of the volcanoes of the Auckland Volcanic Field in New Zealand . The 600-meter-wide tuff crater housed three small, 20-meter-high cinder cones , one of which had a crater. They were completely mined for stone extraction.

See also

• Auckland Volcanic Field

literature

• Ernest J. Searle, revised. by RD Mayhill, Paul Longman: City of Volcanoes: A geology of Auckland 1981. First edition 1964, ISBN 0-582-71784-1 .

Web links

• Photo from 1899 with the three craters
• View from 1930

Coordinates: 36 ° 59 ′  S , 174 ° 46 ′  E