18 Nov 2020

Erebus Memorial approved after bitter fight

From Morning Report, 7:28 am on 18 November 2020

It's been a bitter wrangle that's gone on for years but after a heated public hearing yesterday national memorial for the Mount Erebus crash will be built in Dove-Myer Robinson Park in Parnell.

It will recognise the country's worst peacetime disaster when, in 1979, an Air New Zealand plane crashed into Mt Erebus in Antarctica - killing all 257 people on board.

The decision passed by one vote, disappointing some locals who say the memorial is too big for the park.

Jean Bell reports.