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Amazing Lookout, Rich History, and One Tree Hill

  • Nov 29, 2017
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Being built on 48 volcanic cones, Auckland sure never runs out of fantastic viewpoints. Just check out Mount Eden from this post, and you’ll know what I’m saying. Thankfully, these volcanoes have long been extinct. Thus, people get to climb and sit on the rim of the dormant peak to indulge in gorgeous landscapes.

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View of Rangitoto Island

Located in Cornwall Park, One Tree Hill is an extinct volcanic peak also known as Maungakiekie in Māori (the native Polynesian people of New Zealand) language. It is Auckland’s second largest intact volcanic cone where you can get amazing city views from the summit.

Parking spaces are available around Cornwall Park and on top. So if hiking isn’t your thing, you can drive the steep, one-way lane and end right on the lookout.

one tree hill auckland

one tree hill auckland

one tree hill auckland

one tree hill auckland
The Obelisk

One Tree Hill’s famous marker is the obelisk which has been proudly standing on top of the hill since 1940. It was built to honor the Māori race and also, to mark the 100 years since Treaty of Waitangi was signed.

It’s a massive and significant character of the hill that “Aucklanders see it and know they are home. Visitors see it and know they have arrived”.

one tree hill auckland
one tree hill auckland
one tree hill auckland
Failed attempt to get a decent photo because of the strong winds.

one tree hill auckland

one tree hill auckland

There used to be a totara tree on top of the hill, hence, the name One Tree Hill. But it was chopped down in 1852 by a white settler. Attempts to plant another totara tree have failed, so a pine tree was planted in its place.

In the year 2000, however, the administration decided to remove the new tree following a series of activist attacks which severely damaged it. The hill has been resting bare since then.

People wanted the tree back given that it’s a part of the hill’s identity. Thus, in 2016, nine trees were planted around the area – with a plan to thin the wood over time until only the strongest tree remains.

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Around the hill, you’ll find these cute little sheep grazing the slopes.
one tree hill auckland
I tried hard not to take this cute one home.

one tree hill auckland

One Tree Hill has one heck of a dramatic history; don’t you think?

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Melai is a twenty-something Filipina expat living in Singapore who is passionate about traveling, experiencing new things and witnessing God’s work first-hand. ♥

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