Tank Farm
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- The Western Reclamation in Auckland City is also sometimes called 'Tank Farm'.
Tank Farm (sometimes Tuff Crater) is the name of a volcanic explosion crater in North Shore City, New Zealand. It is a part of the Auckland volcanic field. Located near the approaches to the Auckland Harbour Bridge, it was created by a series of eruptions approximately 20,000 to 140,000 years ago. Originally a freshwater lake, it later became a tidal lagoons when the sea levels rose after the last ice age. Tank Farm is mostly in its natural state, though some parts of the tuff ring were quarried and its name stems from the petrochemicals storage tanks located here during World War II.[1]
[edit] See also
- Onepoto, a neighbouring crater
[edit] References
- ^ Onepoto and Tank Farm - City of Fire, insert magazine in the The New Zealand Herald, Friday 15 February 2008
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