page_title: Purchas Hill
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Purchas Hill / History
caption_attribution_description: A map of the Auckland Volcanic Field by Ferdinand von Hochstetter, 1864. Originally published in Geologisch-topographischer Atlas von Neu-Seeland (Hochstetter and Petermann, 1863), and republished in English in 1864.
context_page_description: Purchas Hill is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field.
  Purchas Hill was a twin-cratered scoria cone around 50 metres high, located north of Maungarei / Mount Wellington, before it was predominately 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.
context_section_description: 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.
  The scant remnants of Purchas Hill lie on what is largely a wasteland in the suburb of Stonefields in Auckland.
  The road Purchas Hill Drive is located where Purchas Hill used to be.
caption: A map of the Auckland volcanic field by Hochstetter from 1859, showcasing Purchas Hill amongst other volcanoes.
exif: {}