Cemetery Crater

Cemetery Crater is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field. It is an explosion crater roughly 200 metres wide, located east of Crater Hill. Hard to see even in early aerial photos due to its shallowness, it is now covered by housing.

Photo: Bruce Hayward, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Puhinui railway station and Papatoetoe railway station.

Puhinui railway station

Railway station

Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.

Puhinui railway station is a station of the Auckland rail network and is located in Papatoetoe, New Zealand. Passenger services on the Eastern Line and Southern Line use the station.

Papatoetoe railway station

Railway station

Papatoetoe railway station is on the Southern Line and Eastern Line of the Auckland railway network in New Zealand. It is between Station Road and Shirley Road, across the street from Papatoetoe West School, and has an island platform layout.

Wiri Mountain

Volcano

Photo: Lasaiya, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Matukutūruru is a volcano in Wiri. Part of the Auckland volcanic field; it is one of the Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau. Created by a series of eruptions around 30,000 years ago, it had a scoria cone reaching approximately 60 metres higher than the surrounding land.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Auckland and Auckland Airport.

South Auckland

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

South Auckland is a district of Auckland situated south and east of Central Auckland. For this travel guide, it includes Manukau, Howick and Papakura. South Auckland is one of the truly multi-cultural urban areas of the world, with Pacific Island nationalities being particularly strongly represented among its residents.

Auckland Airport

Photo: Wangi, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Auckland Airport is New Zealand's largest and busiest airport, with over 70% of international visitors to the nation landing or taking off there. Located in the country's largest city, Auckland, it is also a significant hub for air travel around Oceania.

Papatoetoe

Suburb

Papatoetoe is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest suburb in Auckland by population and is located to the northwest of Manukau Central, and 18 kilometres southeast of Auckland CBD.

Cemetery Crater

Type: Volcano with an elevation of 33 metres
Description: volcanic crater in Auckland, New Zealand
Categories: geographical feature and landform
Location: Auckland, Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-36.9897° or 36° 59′ 23″ south

Longitude

174.8412° or 174° 50′ 28″ east

Elevation

33 metres (108 feet)

Open location code

4VMP2R6R+4F

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9335947702

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=volcano

Wikidata ID

Q5058694

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

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