Statue of Queen Victoria

The bronze figure of Queen Victoria stands atop a granite pedestal, her gaze fixed toward the harbor. She wears her royal robes, clutching a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other. This statue arrived from London in nineteen oh one, a gift to the city from a local businessman named Albert Myers. It arrived in the wake of the Queen's death, serving as a formal anchor for the colonial sentiment that defined the turn of the century in Auckland.