Tank Farm

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Coordinates: 36°48′07″S 174°45′12″E / 36.8020°S 174.7533°E / -36.8020; 174.7533
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For the place in Auckland City, also sometimes called 'Tank Farm', see Wynyard Quarter.
For other uses, see Tank farm.

The crater / lagoon.

Tank Farm (sometimes Tuff Crater) is the name of a volcanic explosion crater (or maar) on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand, near the approaches to the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

Geology

Part of the

tuff ring were quarried and its name stems from the petrochemicals storage tanks located here during World War II.[1]

Tank Farm and neighbouring Onepoto were fresh water lakes when sea levels were lower using the Last Glacial Maximum. As sea levels rose, the waters of the Waitematā Harbour breached the tuff rings of the craters, becoming tidal lagoons.[2]

History

Its Maori name is Te Kopua o Matakamokamo, meaning 'the basin of Matakamokamo'. Matakamokamo is an ancestral figure in Maori oral tradition who, during a domestic argument, is said to have inadvertently cursed the goddess of fire, Mahuika. As punishment, the goddess called on the parent god

Mataoho, who had the necessary powers, to send up numerous volcanic eruptions to plague the hot-tempered man and his wife Matakerepo. The two eruptions that were eventually fatal to the couple were said to be at the sites of what is now called Tank Farm and Onepoto Domain respectively. Consequently, the former was named Te Kopua o Matakamokamo, and the latter Te Kopua o Matakerepo.[3]

The local council uses the name Tuff Crater for this volcano - a name taken from Hochstetter's (1864) map of the volcanoes of Auckland where a number of volcanoes, including Tank Farm, were each labelled "tuff crater" or "tuff craters". The name Tank Farm became popularised during World War II, when bulk fuel storage tanks were constructed adjacent to the crater.[2]

The crater is now surrounded by a 35-hectare nature reserve.[4]

See also

References

  • Volcanoes of Auckland: The Essential guide - Hayward, B.W., Murdoch, G., Maitland, G.; Auckland University Press, 2011.
  • Volcanoes of Auckland: A Field Guide. Hayward, B.W.; Auckland University Press, 2019, 335 pp.
    ISBN 0-582-71784-1
    .
  1. ^ Onepoto and Tank Farm - City of Fire, insert magazine in The New Zealand Herald, Friday 15 February 2008.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-86962-1513
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  3. ^ Bruce Hayward, "Tank Farm Volcano Geology" (2009) http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/files/file/TANK%20FARM%20VOLCANO%20GEOLOGY(2).pdf. Accessed May 2011. Also see "The Volcanoes of Auckland" (2007), by David Pegman, Manukau City Council http://mangeremountain.com/content/library/The_Volcanoes_of_Auckland.pdf. Accessed May 2011. Also see "Call for Tuff Crater to be known as Te Kopua o Matakamokamo, its historic name", North Shore Times Advertiser, 13 July 2000; p. 9
  4. Wikidata Q118136068
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