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embankments and North Head is riddled with tunnels, dug at the end of the 19th century
in response to the Russian threat, and extended during WWI and WWII. The gates are
locked at night, but that's never stopped teenagers from jumping the fence for scary sub-
terranean explorations.
Between the two, Cambria Reserve stands on the remains of a third volcanic cone that
was largely quarried away.
Navy Museum
MUSEUM
OFFLINE MAP
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.navymuseum.mil.nz
;
Torpedo Bay; 10am-5pm)
The navy has been in Devon-
port since the earliest days of the colony. Its history is on display at this well-presented
and often moving museum, focusing on the stories of the sailors themselves.
DON'T MISS
AUCKLAND VOLCANIC FIELD
Some cities think they're tough just by living in the shadow of a volcano. Auck-
land's built on 50 of them and, no, they're not all extinct. The last one to erupt was
Rangitoto about 600 years ago and no one can predict when the next eruption will
occur. Auckland's quite literally a hot spot - with a reservoir of magma 100km be-
low, waiting to bubble to the surface. But relax: this has only happened 19 times in
the last 20,000 years.
Some of Auckland's volcanoes are cones, some are filled with water and some
have been completely quarried away. Moves are afoot to register the field as a
World Heritage Site and protect what remains. Most of the surviving cones show
evidence of terracing from when they formed a formidable series of Maori pa. The
most interesting to explore are Mt Eden (
Click here
)
, One Tree Hill (
Click here
)
and
Rangitoto, but Mt Wellington (Maungarei), Mt Albert (Owairaka), Mt Roskill (Puket-
apapa), Lake Pupuke, Mt Mangere and Mt Hobson (Remuwera) are all worth a visit.
Western Springs
Auckland Zoo
ZOO
OFFLINE MAP
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.aucklandzoo.co.nz
; Motions Rd; adult/child $25/10; 9.30am-5pm, last entry 4.15pm)
At this modern, spacious zoo, the big foreigners tend to steal the attention from the timid
