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Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill, in 2015. Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill is a 182-metre (597 ft) volcanic peak and Tūpuna Maunga (ancestral mountain) in Auckland, New Zealand. It is an important place culturally and archeologically for both Māori and Pākehā. The suburb around the base of the hill is also called One Tree Hill.
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- Cornwall Park Boundary
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Maungakiekie is the most extensively developed Māori pā (village settlement) in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland and one of the largest pre-European archaeological site complexes in New Zealand. It is also one of the largest pre-iron-age forts in the world. At the height of its occupation it was home to thousands of people. Its four tihi (summits) were a...
Maungakiekie is one of the oldest volcanos in the Auckland volcanic field and the second-largest with 20 square kilometers of lava flow fields surrounding a large, complex scoria cone. The age of the Maunga is not precisely known but it is older than 28,500 years old, as it is blanketed with up to 3 metres of ash blown over from Te Tātua a Riukiuta...
Maungakiekie has a history of notable trees on its tihi (summit). One historic name for the tihi is Te Tōtara I Ahua after the sacred lone tōtara that grew there until it was felled by Pakeha vandals in 1852. The name One Tree Hill also stems from this lone tōtara tree. In the 1860s John Logan Campbell began tree planting, including a grove of seve...
Sir John Logan Campbell died in 1912 and is buried on the tihi of Maungakiekie. The 21-metre obelisk also on the tihi was bequeathed by him as a memorial to the Māori people. It is made of basalt and Coromandel Granite and was finally completed in 1948 and unveiled by the Māori King, Koroki.
To recognise the cultural, historic and archaeological significance of the Maunga, the summit road and the tihi (summit) at Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill was permanently closed to private motor vehicles, including motorbikes and scooters, in May 2018.
The Maunga of Maungakiekie and western part of the reserve extending to Manukau Road and encompassing the Stardome Observatory and Sorrento function centre is part of the Treaty of Waitangi redress and is managed by the Tūpuna Maunga Authority. Abutting the Maunga is Cornwall Park which is managed separately by the Cornwall Park Trust.
Parking is available at the start of the summit road and parking time limits are enforced to give all visitors equal parking opportunity.
Narrator: Maungakiekie, or One Tree Hill, is one of Auckland’s most iconic mountains. Maungakiekie means ‘mountain where kiekie grows abundantly.’. Kiekie is a native vine that grows in forests, so the mountain was probably originally covered in trees. Like many hills in Auckland, Maungakiekie, is a volcanic one.
Apr 15, 2021 · The 1994 chainsaw attack on the pine tree atop Auckland’s Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill wasn’t a simple act of vandalism, as many assumed at the time – it was an act of protest informed by ...
Nov 30, 2017 · Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill is one of 46 volcanoes that dot the landscape of Tāmaki Makaurau. At about 180m high, it is the region's second-largest volcano, after Rangitoto. Geologists estimate that it was formed more than 28,000 years ago. ‘Maungakiekie’ means ‘the mountain where kiekie grows abundantly’. Kiekie is a native vine that ...
One Tree Hill. Mount Wellington. Onehunga. Penrose. One Tree Hill is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. The residential part of the suburb is located to the east and south-east of Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill, from which it takes its name, with the volcanic peak located within the suburb's boundaries. The suburb was established in the 1930s.
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One Tree Hill. Auckland, New Zealand, Australia & Pacific. Top choice in Auckland. Maungakiekie was the largest and most spiritually significant Māori pā (fortified village) prior to British arrival. At the top of this volcanic cone (at 182m high) there is an obelisk and epic 360-degree views of Auckland and its harbours. It is also the site ...
