One Tree Hill in Auckland has become No Tree Hill.
One Tree Hill = No Tree Hill
Because of fears strong winds could topple it, the 125-year-old pine tree on top of the hill was chopped down on October 26, 2000.
The Auckland council will try to grow another native tree on the site.
One Tree Hill at a height of 183 metres is not as high as the peak of Mt Eden (196 metres and the highest volcanic cone in the area) but, like Mt Eden which is south of Auckland, One Tree provides a bird's-eye view of New Zealand's largest city.
Both One Tree Hill and Mt Eden were used by the Maori as a pa (fortified village) which could quickly and more easily detect approaches from below.
One Tree is a bald hill shorn at the top of all but one single tree. The tree was a sacred totara until 1876 when it was replaced by a pine which has now been felled.