Queen Victoria Statue, Bronze statue in Albert Park, Auckland, New Zealand

The Queen Victoria Statue is a dark bronze figure of the crowned queen on a light brown stone plinth in Albert Park. She wears a draped gown with a fringed shawl and necklace, her right hand holding a scepter upright against her body. The bronze figure measures 180 cm including crown and base, atop a 270 cm granite pedestal bearing a dedication.

The figure was raised in 1899 when New Zealand remained under strong British rule and the monarch was nearing the end of her long reign. It symbolized the influence of the Empire and now stands as a protected category 2 heritage monument.

The bronze was paid for by public donations collected in boxes around Auckland for the Diamond Jubilee in 1897, earning it the nickname the "People's Statue". In 1971 a feminist student group held a mock funeral here on the anniversary of women's suffrage, and in 1972 Ngāhuia Te Awekotuku and the Gay Liberation Front held pride events at the figure.

The bronze figure stands on a granite pedestal about 4.5 m tall in total, on the former Albert Barracks ground in Albert Park. Footpaths cross the lawn on all sides, a short walk from the central business district and the university campus. The statue is small compared with other Victoria statues in New Zealand, so look up at the pedestal to read the dedication.

The bronze was cast by E. Williamson Sudbury of London, as the panel set into the base records. The Auckland statue is one of nine variants of Francis John Williamson's 1887 figure for the Royal College of Surgeons, and the only one of New Zealand's four main-city Victoria statues unveiled in her lifetime.