My Trip:

Maungakiekie
4 May 2016
By Ian Busby: Room 24

Pre-trip Activity

Interesting facts from my research about Maungakiekie

1.

Sir John Logan Campbell, A wealthy community leader has his body buried
on the top of the hill because he planted a grove of fresh trees as a
replacement for the previous totara tree which was unfortunately cut
down by a vandal of a pakeha.

2.

There are three main craters at the base of Maungakiekie.

3.

The Monterey pine was attacked in 1994 and 1999.

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Maungakiekie is 182 m above sea level.

4000-5000 maori warriors lived in the mountain.
Back in the day there were many kumara pits in the craters.

Post Trip Activities

Brief summary of what we did on our trip

On our Maungakiekie field trip, we were assisted by a tour guide named
Philippa as we trekked to the top of One Tree Hill. Once we reached the
summit, we rested as we began to sketch landscapes that we saw. After
about 15 minutes of sketching, the classes descended to the base of the hill
via the road. When all of the classes had reached the base, we all had lunch,
ready to be lead into the stardome building. Once inside the stardome, a lady
gave us a lecture about the solar system and several things occur for
instance how a lunar eclipse occurs. 15 minutes later we were separated into
our groups, preparing for a quiz. Next up, we followed the lady into a room
known as the planetarium. In this room, we were shown a 3D version of our
solar system and when and how to find venus, mars, jupiter and saturn from
here on earth. The screen above us also showed us a visual of almost all of
the planets. After the show, we sauntered out of the planetarium and out of
the stardome and loaded the buses.

3 new things I learned about Maungakiekie

1

Height of One tree

hill, Maungakiekie.

One tree hill,

Maungakiekie, is 182
meters in height (597 ft)

Attacks on trees

The previous trees on

Maungakiekie, were
attacked in 1994 and
1999.

No. of warriors
3 housed in the craters
of Maungakiekie
4000-5000 warriors
lived in the craters of
Maungakiekie.

3 new things I learned at Stardome

1

Planet sightings

From here on earth,

you can spot four
planets, Mars, Venus,
Saturn and Jupiter.

Planet sightings

The easy way to find

a planet in the night
sky is by using
patterns and
constellations which
were formed by the
greeks.

Atmosphere
shadow

A thing I learnt at
stardome is that the
colour of earths
atmosphere is red.

My favourite part of our trip

The part I most thoroughly enjoyed was the sketching because I thought I
sketched a beautiful landscape of Maungakiekie. I have displayed a picture
of my sketch below.