Wandering through Waikumete
Waikumete Cemetery is the largest cemetery in New Zealand
and the second largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Use the
websites and videos on Mr Halligan Wikispaces to complete
these questions.
1. When was Waikumete Cemetery opened?
2. Why did they need to open a new cemetery in Auckland?
Figure 1http://www.historic.org.nz
3. How many people are buried there?
4. Which road does the main entrance of the cemetery open on to?
5. How were the nine murderers buried underneath the Ghost Gum trees ? (video)
6. What killed the people buried under the ‘bare patch’ in the video?
7. Which industry did the Corbin family help establish in West Auckland? (video)
8. When did cremations begin at Waikumete cemetery?
9. How many cremations occur each year?
10. Which major event occurs at Waikumete cemetery on April 25th each year?
11. Which structure is on the highest hill in the cemetery?
12. When was the Chapel of Faith in the Oaks built?
13. What services are held there now?
14. What does the Holocaust Memorial commemorate (remember)?
15. What is buried at the base of the memorial?
16. Which 1918 event does this memorial commemorate?
17. How were victims transported to Waikumete and buried?
In 1979 a tourist flight to Antarctica crashed into Mt Erebus, killing all 257 people aboard.
There is a memorial at Waikumete for the tragedy.
18. Which of the people killed by the Erebus crash are buried at Waikumete?
19. What do the cemetery staff do each year at the Erebus memorial?
20. Describe the ghost which, according to stories, haunts the Chapel of Faith in the Oaks.
21.
Name and describe the ghost which, according to stories, haunts the Glen Eden train station.
Looking for ancestors
Use this Wikispace link: http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/cnlser/cm/cemeterysearch/default.aspx to complete the details
for these people
Name
Age at death
Neil Anderson
Edward Francis Calon
Lita Kusal Patel
Occupation
Date of burial
22. How many comedians have been buried at Waikumete?
23. Tricky question…a famous author was buried in 2004. Name the book he published in 1987 