A fully illustrated field guide for New Zealanders and visitors to take
with them out among the 53 volcanoes that shape this city. Volcanoes of
Auckland is a handy field guide to the fiery natural world that so
deeply shapes New Zealand's largest city--from Rangitoto to One Tree
Hill, from Lake Pupuke to Orakei Basin. For hundreds of years, volcanoes
have played a key part in the lives of indigenous Maori and
Europeans--as sites for pa, kumara gardens, or twentieth-century
military fortifications; as sources of stone and water; and now as parks
and reserves for all to enjoy. This field guide features: an accessible
introduction to the science of eruptions, including dating and the next
eruption; a history of Maori and Pakeha uses of the volcanoes; an
illustrated guide to each of Auckland's 53 volcanoes, including where to
go and what to do; and aerial photography, maps, and historic
photographs--over 400 illustrations, 80% of them new. This field guide
will help readers engage afresh with the history, geography, and geology
of Auckland's unique volcanic landscape. Volcanoes of Auckland is the
essential guide for locals, tourists, school children, and scientists,
as they climb up Mt Eden or North Head and take in the volcanic
landscape that so shapes life in New Zealand's largest city.
