Tank farm may refer to the:

• Alternate name for an oil depot, a facility for storage of liquid petroleum products or petrochemicals
• Tank Farm, also known as 'Tuff Crater', a volcanic crater in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand
• Western Reclamation, also known as the 'Tank Farm', on the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand

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The crater / lagoon.

The Western Reclamation in Auckland City is also sometimes called 'Tank Farm'.

Tank Farm (sometimes Tuff Crater) is the name of a volcanic explosion crater (or maar) in North Shore City, New Zealand, near the approaches to the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

Its Maori name is Te Kopua o Matakamokamo, meaning 'the basin of Matakamokamo'. Matakamokamo is an ancestral figure in Maori oral tradition who, during a domestic argument, is said to have inadvertently cursed the goddess of fire, Mahuika. As punishment, the goddess called on the parent god Mataoho, who had the necessary powers, to send up numerous volcanic eruptions to plague the hot-tempered man and his wife Matakerepo. The two eruptions that were eventually fatal to the couple were said to be at the sites of what is now called Tank Farm and Onepoto Domain respectively. Consequently, the former was named Te Kopua o Matakamokamo, and the latter Te Kopua o Matakerepo.^[1]

Part of the Auckland volcanic field, it was created by a series of explosive eruptions. Although its age is unknown it could be one of the older voclanoes in Auckland like its neighbours Onepoto and Lake Pupuke. Originally a freshwater lake, it later became a tidal lagoons when the sea levels rose after the last ice age. Tank Farm is mostly in its natural state, though some parts of the tuff ring were quarried and its name stems from the petrochemicals storage tanks located here during World War II.^[2]

The local council uses the name Tuff Crater for this volcano - a name taken from Hochstetter's (1864) map of the volcanoes of Auckland where a number of volcanoes, including Tank Farm, were each labelled "tuff crater" or "tuff craters".

See also[link]

• Onepoto, a neighbouring crater

References[link]

• Volcanoes of Auckland: The Essential guide - Hayward, B.W., Murdoch, G., Maitland, G.; Auckland University Press, 2011.

Coordinates: 36°48′07″S 174°45′12″E / 36.802°S 174.753299°E / -36.802; 174.753299

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