Auckland - One Tree Hill

Further south is another volcanic cone, One Tree Hill (183m), one of the city's finest viewpoints. At the top are the ramparts of a Maori pa (17th-18th C.) that once occupied the site and could accommodate up to 4000 people. On the highest point of the hill there once stood a sacred totara tree, which was ruthlessly felled by the first European settlers.

John Logan Campbell, the true founder of Auckland, established a large farm on One Tree Hill in the late 1830s. On the occasion of a royal visit in 1901 he presented much of his land to the nation as Cornwall Park.