An Auckland iwi wants to install ziplines and gondolas on Auckland's Rangitoto Island.

Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki recently won a court case over who has rights to conduct commercial operations on the young volcano, and chairman James Brown has big plans.

"These iconic landscapes need to be accessible, so a zipline is possible and also a gondola," he told Newshub, suggesting a ski-lift was also a possibility.

"The way access to the island is set up right now is actually very limited, just three ferries a day.

"How do we make it more accessible to the elderly, the disabled, for babies?"

He dismissed concerns ziplines and gondolas would damage the pest-free paradise, saying the rides wouldn't be visible from the mainland.

"My ancestors didn't wreck Rangitoto or Motutapu or any island. The Crown and its mates did," he told NZME.