Rangitoto: Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, is home to around 50 volcanoes. The city's most famous, and most active, is Rangitoto, viewed here from Cheltenham Beach.
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Rangitoto: Auckland has been dubbed the "city of sails" because of the many yachts that dot its harbors. The Coastal Classic yacht race, held annually on Labour Day weekend, starts in Auckland's Devonport Wharf and finishes off Russell Wharf in the Bay of Islands.
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North Head/Maungauika: North Head marks the entrance to Auckland's inner harbor. It has been an important coastal defense site -- initially for New Zealand's indigenous Maori and from the 1800s for the country's defense forces.
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Pukekawa: Commemorations continue to this day, with the museum a focus of activities on Anzac Day every April 25, with thousands attending a dawn service. Here, a Maori warrior plays the pukaea (a traditional Maori wooden trumpet).
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Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill: Maungakiekie was named One Tree Hill by European settlers in the 1800s. A grove of native trees, including six pohutukawa and three totaram were planted on this Maori ancestral mountain in 2016.
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Maungawhau/Mount Eden: Mount Eden is Auckland's highest natural point. From the summit you can stare down into its steep 50-meter-deep crater or get a 360-degree view of the city's sprawling suburbs.
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Maungawhau/Mount Eden: From Mount Eden's summit you can stare down into its steep 50-meter-deep crater or get a 360-degree view of the city's sprawling suburbs.
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Mangere Mountain: Mangere Mountain is some 30,000 years old. Standing at 106 meters, it has three craters and the Auckland volcanic field's only "tholoid" -- a lava plug that forms a dome in the middle of one of its craters.