# South Auckland volcanic field

- **Country:** New Zealand
- **Coordinates:** -37.195506, 175.018135
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- **Text:** Location and extent of extinct South Auckland volcanic field
- **Type:** Volcanic field
- **Zoom:** 8
- **Align:** center
- **Width:** 250
- **Height:** 250
- **Geology:** Basalt
- **Map Alt:** Map of South Auckland volcanic field
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- **Elevation M:** 379
- **Last Eruption:** c. 550,000 years ago

The South Auckland volcanic field, also known as the Franklin Volcanic Field, is an area of extinct monogenetic volcanoes around Pukekohe, the Franklin area and north-western Waikato, south of the Auckland volcanic field. The field contains at least 82 volcanoes, which erupted between 550,000 and 1,600,000 years ago.

![Photo of South Auckland volcanic field](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/1859_Hochstetter_map_The_Southern_Part_of_the_Province_of_Auckland.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Auckland_volcanic_field (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)