Mount Victoria (Auckland)

Mount Victoria ( Takarunga on te reo Maori ) is the highest volcano in North Shore, New Zealand. Although he is the highest volcano in the area, but only 87 m high. The last eruption is 20,000 years back. Its lava flows mark today a large part of the shoreline of Devon port. An important Pā Māori once lay at his hillside, of which only some remnants of earthworks have been preserved.

The mountain is named after Queen Victoria. The hill offers good views of the Waitemata Harbour and the inner Hauraki Gulf.

On the top and the upper part of the slope stood over the years a signal station, artillery emplacements and various concrete bunkers, some of which date back to the early 1870s. One of the bunker is used by the Devonport Folk Club. The investments of the local tennis clubs are on the slopes of the hill.

In the 1980s, students have painted the ventilation shaft covers the underground passages of the former artillery positions as a joke in fly agaric look. This was among the visitors of Mt Victoria so popular that the former North Shore City Council (now Auckland City Council) has maintained this and repainted the ' mushrooms ' if necessary.