Middle and Senior School classes were fortunate to enjoy a visit from two Auckland Museum Geologists this week. Students discovered that Auckland is built on a, mainly extinct, volcanic field – with many of its old volcanoes remaining easy to spot in our communities.
All were amazed to find out that, although now being around 600 years old, Rangitoto is still classed as a very young volcano. Other local maunga that were discussed included Ōhuiarangi (Pigeon Mountain) as well as Maungarei (Mount Wellington).
This was followed by some activities where students could test out what they had learnt, by matching the correct types of rocks to the type of volcano. All were very engaged – we may have some future volcanologists in our midst!
