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46:. Its 300 m wide, sediment-filled explosion (maar) crater was used as a boat harbour in early European times and known first as Onehunga Basin then as Geddes Basin. It was reclaimed in the 1930s and named Gloucester Park in 1935 after the visit to New Zealand by the Duke of Gloucester in that year. From 1975 into the early 1980s the
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Item 46 – Hōpua explosion crater and tuff exposure – Hōpua volcano is a small explosion crater with a low tuff ring about 500m in diameter. The original crater was breached by the sea and filled with marine sediments. Although damaged by reclamation and motorway construction, the tuff ring is still
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was built right through the middle of the park and crater. The southern side was turned into a sports ground, and the western side as a wetland with activity space for Aotea Sea Scouts who took ownership of the
Manukau Yacht and Motor Boat Club (MYMBC) club house in 1977 (the white building in the
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The army occupied Te Hopua a Rangi between 1941 and 1946, building barracks along its western side close to the sea, and occupying the MYMBC club house until 1945, when the MYMBC celebrated the return of the building with a grand re-opening dance on 21 July 1945. Evidence of the camp was all but
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Gloucester Park speedway was opened on 5 January 1935 by the
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