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Mount Cambria (also Sheep Hill or Taka-a-raro[1] / Takararo) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field. Located in the suburb of Devonport north-east of Mt Victoria, its 30-metre scoria cone was quarried away. The site is now Cambria Reserve.

History

The hill was traditionally known as Takararo ("The Hill Standing Below"), contrasting with the larger Takarunga / Mount Victoria ("The Hill Standing Above").[2] It was named Heaphy Hill after Charles Heaphy by Ferdinand von Hochstetter in 1859, but this name is not used.^{[citation needed]}

The hill was quarried between the 1870s and 1977, initially by private contractors and later by the Devonport Borough Council.[2]

Notes

References

• City of Volcanoes: A geology of Auckland - Searle, Ernest J.; revised by Mayhill, R.D.; Longman Paul, 1981. First published 1964. ISBN 0-582-71784-1.
• 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.

External links

• View from Mt Cambria in 1927, towards Mt Victoria.
• Photographs of Mount Cambria held in Auckland Libraries' heritage collections.

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