Mount Cambria (also Sheep Hill or Taka-a-raro[1] / Takararo) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field. Located in the suburb of Devonport north-east of Mt Victoria, its 30-metre scoria cone was quarried away. The site is now Cambria Reserve.
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History
The hill was traditionally known as Takararo ("The Hill Standing Below"), contrasting with the larger Takarunga / Mount Victoria ("The Hill Standing Above").[2] It was named Heaphy Hill after Charles Heaphy by Ferdinand von Hochstetter in 1859, but this name is not used.[citation needed]
The hill was quarried between the 1870s and 1977, initially by private contractors and later by the Devonport Borough Council.[2]
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