Kōrero: Memorials and monuments
Whārangi 8. Hononga, rauemi nō waho
Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki
Historic Places Trust Register
The Historic Places Trust register includes some 200 monuments and memorials, with images and information on some of the memorials.
Memorials – a city that remembers
Dunedin City Council’s site has excellent information about local memorials.
Memorials – Christchurch City Council
Christchurch City Council provides a useful list of local memorials, with images.
Memorials, mascots and memorabilia
NZ History has essays on memorials of the New Zealand wars, South African War and First World War.
NZ memorials register map
This interactive register on NZ History provides images and locations of most New Zealand war memorials.
Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga
- Maclean, Chris, and Jock Phillips. The sorrow and the pride: New Zealand war memorials. Wellington: Historical Branch; GP Books, 1990.
- Porter, Frances. A sense of history: a commemorative publication for John Cawte Beaglehole, O.M., about James Cook’s landing sites in New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer, 1978.
Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang
Jock Phillips, Memorials and monuments, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/story/202360/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).
He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 14 March 2012, updated 26 March 2015.