One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill - (Maungakiekie)

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Photo courtesy K Jones, Department of Conservation.

Maungakiekie is the largest pa in the Auckland volcanic field. Cornwall Park covers some of the cone. It has an exellent visitor centre (on the north side of the cone) which explains the Maori history of the site and presents digital reconstruction images and finds from the cone and the area.

Archaeologists with an involvment with the cone include Aileen Fox and Geoff Fairfield

The U2 song One Tree Hill refers to this cone:

Only scars carved into stone on the face of earth The moon is up and over One Tree Hill

From the 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It was written to commemorate a Kiwi roadie killed in a motor accident.

Links

Cornwall Park site history page

Auckland Regional Council page on Maungakikie.

Auckland City Council page on Maungakikie.