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View to Motutapu Island
Rangitoto: View to Motutapu Island
Motutapu (sacred island) is an adjoining island that is much older than Rangitoto and formed of sedimentary rock. Preserved footprints and fireplaces buried under ash layers show that Maori were living here when Rangitoto was erupting.

July 2002