Panmure Basin

When sea-levels rose, the estuarine waters of the Tāmaki River breached the lake, turning it into a tidal estuary.

It features in traditional Tāmaki Māori stories as the eating place of the taniwha Moko-ika-hiku-waru.

[4] The headland between the basin and the Tāmaki River was the location of the Ngāti Pāoa pā Mauināina (also known as Maunga-inaina and Taumata-inaina).

[6] In February 2008, scientists announced that drilling had discovered a scoria cone buried within the mud filling the explosion crater.

[7] Although newspaper journalists inferred that the discovered scoria cone was a much younger and different volcano from Panmure Basin,[8] geologists consider that the scoria cone was produced as the second phase of the eruption of Panmure Basin explosion crater and tuff ring.

The narrow passage that connects Panmure Basin to the Tāmaki River