from Māngere Mountain, much of the work done by the Ngāti Mahuta Māori Militia led by Tāmati Ngāpora. The church was registered on 7 April 1983 by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (now Heritage New Zealand) as a Category II historic place with registration number 689. Te Puea Memorial Marae. A tribal meeting ground for the Waikato Tainui hapū of Ngāti Kuiaarangi, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Tai and Ngāti Whāwhākia. It includes a meeting house, also called Te Puea. The marae has helped hundreds of people find housing during the homelessness crisis, through a philosophy of manaakitanga. Natural areas Ambury Regional Park. Opened as a regional park on 26 September 1987, the area is an archaeological site and working farm, which organises the annual Ambury Farm Day. Areas of the park are leased to the Māngere Pony Club, and the Ambury Park Centre for Riding Therapy, a charity which provides physiological and psychological therapy through horse riding. The Watercare Coastal Walkway, opened in 2005 after the removal of the oxidation ponds, links Ambury Regional Park to Ōtuataua Stonefields in the south. Kiwi Esplanade Walkway. A walkway extending along the Manukau Harbour from Ambury Regional Park to the Mangere Bridges. The eastern section of the walk was first designated as a recreational reserve in 1912. The shoreline features pāhoehoe flows; hot fluid lava that travelled up to 10 km/h from the Māngere Mountain eruption, approximately 50,000 years ago. Situated along the walkway are the Manukau Yacht & Motor Boat Club, which opened its clubrooms in 1979, and the Mangere Boating Club which was founded in 1961. Māngere Mountain / Te Pane-o-Mataaho / Te Ara Pueru. A volcano and pā site important to Waiohua and Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei history. The mountain was set aside as a public domain in 1890, for use as a water reservoir, a quarry, and for recreation. Māngere Lagoon. A volcanic maar and tidal lagoon, used as sewage oxidation ponds from 1959-2001, after which it was ecologically restored and form a part of the Watercare Coastal Walkway. Puketutu Island / Te Motu a Hiaroa. The first permanent home of the Tainui people in Aotearoa, after the Tainui waka was transported over the Te Tō Waka portage at Ōtāhuhu, from the Tāmaki River to the Manukau Harbour. In the 1950s and 1960s, four scoria cones on the island were quarried for use in public works projects such as Auckland