Māngere Mountain
Volcanic cone with a rare central lava dome, once home to a major fortified Waiohua pa.
This guide to Māngere Mountain in Auckland traces a volcanic cone that erupted tens of thousands of years ago and later became a stronghold of the Waiohua confederation by the seventeen twenties, ringed with kumara storage pits. It follows the rivalry between Waiohua and Te Taou, a Ngati Whatua hapu seeking revenge after a massacre at a funeral feast, through battles across the seventeen thirties and forties, and the death of the paramount chief Kiwi Tamaki elsewhere on the isthmus. Along the way it points out the mountain's rare central lava dome, found nowhere else on an Auckland volcano, sitting at the centre of the crater beside you.
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