Bombay Hills

The hills are located 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Auckland, close to the town of Pukekohe.

State Highway 1 here reaches its highest point between Auckland and Tīrau in the eastern Waikato Region, 134 kilometres (83 mi) to the southeast.

The Bombay Hills are a remnant of a shield volcano from the South Auckland volcanic field, which erupted an estimated 600,000 years ago.

[4] The hills are overlain by Hamilton Ash tephra which has weathered to create some of the best soils for market gardening in New Zealand.

The Bombay Hills are the barrier that halts the northward progression of the Waikato River.

The hills cause it to turn west towards the coast where it empties into the Tasman Sea near Port Waikato.

[8] The Bombay Hills has many former athletes as residents including Eric Murray (Olympic rower), Katherine Prumm (World Champion motorcyclist) and Andy Dalton (former All Black captain).

It goes through bush with kauri, hard beech and king ferns and has views to Waikato, the west coast and Firth of Thames.