On Sunday, I was at Auckland Airport and finally had the opportunity and time to do something I had been meaning to do for several years. I stopped at the Erebus Crew Memorial Garden on Tom Pearce Drive ( the road heading east from the airport).
The garden is marked by a small, easily-missed, blue and white sign, in front of a small Pohutukawa tree:
There is a convenient parking place just after the sign.
The memorial is a small stone engraved with the names of the crew:
There were new flowers there, presumably placed there on the anniversary, four days before my visit:
The garden is a very pleasant and tranquil place, looking out over the mangroves of the upper reaches of Manukau Harbour, towards the approaches for 23L and 23R:
I drove there, but for anyone in transit, it would be a 30 minute walk from the Domestic Terminal and perhaps 10 minutes more from the International Terminal.
