Puketutu Island

Puketutu Island is a volcanic island in the Manukau Harbour, New Zealand, and is part of the Auckland volcanic field. In the 1950s, its scoria cones were heavily quarried for fill to extend Auckland Airport nearby. The charitable trust now owning the forested island has proposed a scheme whereby biosolids from the Mangere wastewater treatment plant could be used to reshape the older form of the island. While the process could take up to 35 years, the final goal is envisaged as becoming a park for the Auckland Region."Redemption near for Puketutu" - "City of Fire", insert magazine in the "The New Zealand Herald", Friday 15 February 2008]

The island was also used as the site for several pā (Māori earth fortifications usually guarding a settlement or important site) throughout the last centuries - though these were deserted by the time of the arrival of European colonists in the area. [ [http://kellihercharitabletrust.org.nz/ancienthistory.htm Ancient history] (from the Sir Henry J Kelliher Charitable Trust website. Accessed 2008-06-21.)]

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