Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
a military airfield with three 2km landing strips in the usal triangle, normally they would overlap but for some reason two of them do, the third sticks out a bit so theres a short track between them. at the time of building it was nz's longest landing strip, built for B17's. there's a 700000 imperial gallon underground petrol tank 16 kms away at bankside.
closet point is corner of ardlui, illingworth and haldon roads for te pirita

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Te Pirita - this from " jelliewrestler " - an overlay of the original monochrome on a current Google Map. the Circles are quite prominent on the Google Map -

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