Purchas Hill (also Te Tauoma) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field.

Purchas Hill
Te Tauoma
Quarried remnant of Purchas Hill, with Maungarei / Mount Wellington in the background
Highest point
Coordinates	36°53′14″S 174°50′51″E
Geography
Purchas Hill Purchas Hill's location within New Zealand.
Location	Stonefields, Auckland, New Zealand
Geology
Volcanic arc/belt	Auckland volcanic field

Purchas Hill was a twin-cratered scoria cone around 50 metres high, located north of Maungarei / Mount Wellington, before it was predominantly quarried away. The scoria cone sat in the middle of its large explosion crater with a surrounding tuff ring. It erupted about 10,000 years ago, shortly before the eruption of its larger neighbour, Mount Wellington.[1]

History

Te Tauoma was the site where the Ngāi Tai descendants of Te Kete-ana-taua lived, often fighting with nearby Ngāi Tāhuhu who lived around Ōtāhuhu / Mount Richmond.[2]

In the mid 1800s, geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter named the mountain after the Reverend Dr Arthur Guyon Purchas (1821-1906), in gratitude for his help with geological work on the field.[1]

The scant remnants of Purchas Hill lie on what is largely a wasteland in the suburb of Stonefields in Auckland.[3]

The road Purchas Hill Drive is located where Purchas Hill used to be.

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 looking north from Mount Wellington in 1921, with Purchas Hill in foreground.
• 1850s diagram of Mt Wellington and Purchas Hill.

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