Browns Island (Motukorea) is a small island in New Zealand in Hauraki Bay just north of Music Point, one of the best preserved volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field. The age of the eruption is about 25,000 years ago, when the Tamaki Estuary and Waitemata Harbor were forested river valleys. Due to centuries of cultivation, little shrubs remain, except for the northeast cliffs, making the volcanic landforms easily visible.
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| Browns Island Auckland New Zealand |
It exhibits landforms from three styles of eruption. The Browns Island consists of one main cinder cone with a deep crater, a small residual arca tuff ring forming cliffs in the northeast, and the upper parts of lava flows. The area was dry land when the eruption occurred, but now most of the lava is submerged underwater.
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| Browns Island Auckland New Zealand |
Auckland Island
The Auckland Islands is an island archipelago in the subantarctic waters of the Pacific Ocean, located south of South Island as part of the New Zealand archipelago, about 350 kilometers away. The archipelago was named by its European discoverer Abraham Bristow in honor of his father's friend William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland.
The Auckland archipelago consists of eight large islands: Auckland, Adams, Enderby, Disappointment, Ewing, Rose, Dundas and Green, as well as many small islets and rocks.
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| Browns Island Auckland New Zealand |
The total land area of the Auckland Islands exceeds 625 square kilometers.
At the moment, the islands in the Auckland archipelago are territorially owned by New Zealand, but at the same time they are not part of any of the regions or districts, but are under the control of a special state department, the Area Outside Territorial Authority.