Science Learning Hub logo
TopicsConceptsCitizen scienceTeacher PLDGlossary
Sign in
Image

Pukekawa (Auckland Domain)

Looking down on Pukekawa (Auckland Domain) from high.

Small scoria cone inside a large, shallow explosion crater with surrounding tuff ring. The moat between the central scoria cone and tuff ring is filled with a solidified lava lake. Formed around 106,000 years ago, it appears to have erupted through the eastern part of the fractionally older Grafton Volcano tuff ring. One of the first volcanoes formed in the Auckland volcanic field. Now part of Auckland Domain.

Acknowledgement: Google Earth

Glossary

Rights: Google Earth
Published: 12 July 2017Updated: 3 March 2026Size: 541.22 KB
Referencing Hub media

Explore related content

Appears inRelated resources
Auckland Volcanic Field - interactive image map

Interactive

Auckland Volcanic Field

This interactive covers the Auckland Volcanic Field, to find out more about the major volcanoes in Aotearoa New Zealand go ...

Read more
Auckland’s forgotten volcano

Article

Auckland’s forgotten volcano

Scientists researching and mapping Auckland’s volcanic field thought they had discovered a hitherto unknown crater lying beneath the suburb of ...

Read more
Auckland’s volcanoes

Article

Auckland’s volcanoes

The city of Auckland is built on a volcanic field. There are over 53 volcanoes within an area of 360 ...

Read more
Exploding Taupō

Article

Exploding Taupō

Volcanoes often occur at the boundary where two tectonic plates meet. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the Taupō Volcanic Zone (TVZ), ...

Read more

See our newsletters here.

NewsEventsAboutContact usPrivacyCopyrightHelp

The Science Learning Hub Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao is funded through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Science in Society Initiative.

Science Learning Hub Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao © 2007-2026 The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato