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Crater face

Unpredictable, wild, reliable Rangitoto. A local fixture, framing every sunrise on the eastern shore, but now more visited by tourists than residents, it is — as American politician/poet Donald Rumsfeld might have put it — Auckland’s greatest unknown known.

Rangitoto was born from the actions of an ancient tribe of giants, as landforms so often are. This tribe (relates John White in amused themselves in “games of throwing stones from hill to hill”. One of

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