Purchas Hill is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field

Auckland Volcanic Field

The Auckland volcanic field is a monogenetic volcanic field in the North Island of New Zealand. Basaltic in nature, it underlies much of the metropolitan area of Auckland....

. It was a twin-cratered scoria cone around 50 m high, located north of Mount Wellington

Mount Wellington, Auckland

-The volcano:Mount Wellington is a 137 metre volcanic peak located in the Auckland volcanic field of Auckland, New Zealand. It is the youngest onshore volcano of the Auckland volcanic field, having been formed by an eruption around 10,000 years ago...

, before it was quarried away. The scoria cone sat in the middle of its large explosion crater with surrounding tuff ring. It was erupted about 10,000 yrs ago, shortly before the eruption of its larger neighbour, Mt Wellington. Hochstetter named it after the Reverend Arthur Guyon Purchas (1821-1906), in gratitude for his help with his geological work on the Field.

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• View looking north from Mount Wellington in 1921, with Purchas Hill in foreground.
• 1850s diagram of Mt Wellington and Purchas Hill.