Cemetery Crater
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Cemetery Crater is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field
. It is an explosion crater roughly 200 metres (656.2 ft) wide, located east of Crater Hill
. Hard to see even in early aerial photos due to its shallowness, it is now covered by housing.Hayward, B.W., Kenny, J.A., and Grenfell, H.R. (2011). "More volcanoes recognised in Auckland Volcanic Field. Geoscience Society of New Zealand Newsletter. v. 5, p. 11-16. It was first recognised by Ernie Searle in the 1960s.Searle, E. J. (1961). "Volcanoes of the Otahuhu-Manurewa district, Auckland". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. v. 4, p. 239-255. He named it because of its proximity to the cemetery in Puhinui Rd, but the Southwestern Motorway has now been constructed between the crater and the cemetery.
Auckland Volcanic Field
The Auckland volcanic field is a monogenetic volcanic field in the North Island of New Zealand. Basaltic in nature, it underlies much of the metropolitan area of Auckland....
. It is an explosion crater roughly 200 metres (656.2 ft) wide, located east of Crater Hill
Crater Hill
Crater Hill is one of the volcanoes of the Auckland Volcanic Field. It consists of an explosion crater about 600m wide, partly filled with water....
. Hard to see even in early aerial photos due to its shallowness, it is now covered by housing.Hayward, B.W., Kenny, J.A., and Grenfell, H.R. (2011). "More volcanoes recognised in Auckland Volcanic Field. Geoscience Society of New Zealand Newsletter. v. 5, p. 11-16. It was first recognised by Ernie Searle in the 1960s.Searle, E. J. (1961). "Volcanoes of the Otahuhu-Manurewa district, Auckland". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. v. 4, p. 239-255. He named it because of its proximity to the cemetery in Puhinui Rd, but the Southwestern Motorway has now been constructed between the crater and the cemetery.