- Tank Farm
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Western Reclamation in Auckland City is also sometimes called 'Tank Farm'."Tank Farm (sometimes Tuff Crater) is the name of a volcanic explosion crater in
North Shore City ,New Zealand . It is a part of theAuckland volcanic field . Located near the approaches to theAuckland Harbour Bridge , it was created by a series of eruptions approximately 20,000 to 140,000 years ago. Originally a freshwater lake, it later became a tidallagoon s when the sea levels rose after the lastice age . Tank Farm is mostly in its natural state, though some parts of thetuff ring were quarried and its name stems from thepetrochemical s storage tanks located here during World War II."Onepoto and Tank Farm" - "City of Fire", insert magazine in the "The New Zealand Herald ", Friday 15 February 2008]ee also
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Onepoto , a neighbouring craterReferences
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