by Susan | Aug 10, 2026 | Monuments
Located in a small rural town this statue honors the life of Margaret Cruickshank, a local doctor who died in the influenza pandemic of 1918. At its unveiling on July 25, 1923, it was the first monument erected in New Zealand to a woman other than Queen Victoria....
by Susan | Apr 6, 2026 | Monuments
The mine, now painted red and on display in the middle of Mōkau, washed ashore on the southern side of the Mōkau river mouth in December 1942. It is now thought that the Mōkau mine is a German X-type five-horn device, one of a total of 14 moored contact mines that...
by Susan | Oct 16, 2023 | Monuments
The New Zealand National Memorial to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd was erected below the lookout on Mt Victoria, in honor of polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd, US Navy. It was unveiled on 11 March 1962, the fifth anniversary of Byrd’s death. Originally covered...
by Susan | Feb 1, 2021 | Monuments
Handspan is a large work of art, almost 20 meters in diameter, which rises in a double spiraled pathway to a height of about 3 meters with walls on each side, covered with some 4,000 terracotta hand casts made from hand prints of community members of all ages (from 3...
by Susan | Jan 13, 2021 | Monuments
To celebrate peace at the end of World War I, the Boy Scouts proposed lighting beacon fires across the British Empire. The idea was inspired by the words of Sir Edward Grey on August 3, 1914, who looked out of his window in London at dusk and remarked: “The lamps are...
