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Memorials register
Welcome to the New Zealand memorials register. Here you will find information, accurate locations and images for over 800 memorials throughout the country.
Find regional memorial map links below or see them all on the master New Zealand memorials map (large download). You can also Download a KML file of this map to view in Google Earth.
William Trethewey
A self-taught sculptor and monumental mason committed to New Zealand subject-matters, William Trethewey crafted one of the nation’s finest First World War memorials.
William Trethewey
William Trethewey in 1935.
A self-taught sculptor and monumental mason committed to New Zealand subject-matters, William Trethewey crafted one of the nation’s finest First World War memorials.
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Massey memorial
A koru-shaped capsule located beside the Erebus disaster memorial cross on Mt Erebus. It contains messages from relatives of the victims of the disaster which were collected for the 30th anniversary commemorations. The 26-kg capsule was due to be placed at the site on the anniversary by six relatives of the victims of the disaster visiting Antarctica, but bad weather prevented them from reaching the crash site. It was eventually taken there in January 2010. Image: © R McPhail.
Koru capsule on Mt Erebus
Robert Scott memorial boulder
Memorial to Robert Falcon Scott in the Queenstown Gardens.
Neill Atkinson, 2009
Air NZ momentum sculpture
The sculpture Momentum, marking the significant events in Air New Zealand’s history, was unveiled at Air New Zealand headquarters in Auckland on 23 October 2009. Family members of the victims of the Erebus disaster were invited to the ceremony, at which Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe apologised to those affected by the tragedy for Air New Zealand's failures and for its treatment of families of the victims.
Making the Erebus memorial cross
The deputy leader at Scott Base, Ted Robinson, and building services officer Garth Varcoe making the Erebus memorial cross that was dedicated in December 1979.
Many of those involved in the site investigation and recovery operation assisted with its construction, taking 'one or two shavings off it with a plane' or 'rubbing a little oil into the wood'.
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