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This police map shows the location of Air New Zealand Flight TE901's crash site on Mt Erebus, Antarctica, in 1979. See also Erebus crash site map.
Image: Susan Butterworth, More than law and order: policing a changing society 1945-92: the history of policing in New Zealand, volume five, Dunedin, University of Otago Press, 2005.
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