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First observed in 1916, Anzac Day - 25 April - commemorates those killed in war as well as honouring returned servicemen and women. The ceremonies that are held at war memorials across the country, or in places overseas where New Zealanders gather, are rich in tradition and ritual.

The Rainbow Warrior memorial at Matauri Bay, Northland

Ari Burnu Memorial, Gallipoli

Memorial to Robert Falcon Scott in the Queenstown Gardens

Family members of Erebus disaster victims were invited to the unveiling of Momentum, a sculpture marking the significant events in Air New Zealand’s history.

Deputy Leader at Scott Base, Ted Robinson, and building services officer, Garth Varcoe making the Erebus memorial cross that was dedicated in December 1979

Initial memorials and memorial services to mark the Erebus disaster

Service on Antarctica marking 25 years since the Erebus disaster

he Beverley Price memorial track near Puhoehoe

Erebus disaster memorial window in St Stephen's Church, Whangaparaoa.

Memorial plaque and windows in St Matthew in the City Church, Auckland, dedicated to those who died in the Mt Erebus disaster.

Memorial plaque and gardens dedicated to the crew and attendants who died in the Erebus disaster.

The memorial to victims of the Mt Erebus disaster at Waikumete Cemetery in Auckland.

There a number of memorials in New Zealand to British explorer Captain Robert Scott.

Memorial cross on Mount Erebus. The cross is located approximately 3 km south-east of the 1979 crash site.

he memorial to Robert Scott in Christchurch

Cannon and plaque commemorating the wreck of the topsail schooner Falcon in the early hours of 1 March 1840.

The Imperial Camel Corps Memorial in Victoria Gardens, Thames Embankment, London. 

Veteran labour politician Harry Holland represented West Coast electorates that included Seddonville from 1918 until his death in 1933.

The memorial to Paddy the Wanderer (dog) against the New Zealand Academy of the Arts building on the Wellington waterfront.

Cross to the victims of the Erebus disaster erected by recovery workers in Antarctica

The first landing site of Captain James Cook's crew at Gisborne was commemorated with the erection of a monument in 1906.

This carved wooden Maori cenotaph was erected at Te Koura marae in memory of those who died in the 1918 influenza pandemic.

More than 450 memorials are currently listed on the register. Find your local memorial with our interactive location map, or help us find out about the ones we've missed.

Robert McNab, historian and minister of lands in the Liberal government, was closely associated with the development of the Ship Cove monument in Queen Charlotte Sound. This is where James Cook spent most time in New Zealand throughout his voyages.