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Pukaki Lagoon

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Coordinates: 36°58′59″S 174°48′37″E / 36.982998°S 174.810226°E / -36.982998; 174.810226
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Pukaki crater.

Pukaki Lagoon is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field. It has a 600 m wide explosion crater, with a surrounding tuff ring. Formerly a tidal lagoon, it was drained and used as a speedway from 1929 into the 1930s (Henning's Speedway). It is now farmland.

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.

36°58′59″S 174°48′37″E / 36.982998°S 174.810226°E / -36.982998; 174.810226

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