Mount Cambria

Mount Cambria



1907 postcard showing Mount Cambria as seen from Mt Victoria

Mount Cambria (also Sheep Hill or Takararo) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field. Located north-east of Mt Victoria, it's 30m scoria cone was quarried away. The site is now Cambria Reserve. It was named Heaphy Hill after Charles Heaphy by Ferdinand von Hochstetter in 1859, but this name is not used.

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.
  • Volcanoes of Auckland: The Essential guide - Hayward, B.W., Murdoch, G., Maitland, G.; Auckland University Press, 2011.

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Coordinates: 36°49′28″S 174°48′07″E / 36.824444°S 174.801933°E / -36.824444; 174.801933


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