A plaque now rests on the wall above the paupers' grave where she was buried. The recently renovated Auckland Airport international terminal has been named in Batten's honour. Her plane hangs in the airport, and there are displays about her around the terminal. Jean Batten took New Zealand from the edge. "A magnificent woman and her flying machine" - with determination and skill she took on the elements in an unexplored new technology to make the world smaller, to link New Zealand with the world in a more tangible way than ever before. She captured the imagination of an age and her feats of daring broke barriers of distance, time and gender during the golden era of flight. Her flights were characterised by brilliant navigation precision, achieved without radio, using only a map, watch and simple magnetic compass. She flew the Gull from England to Brazil in 1935 in 61 hours 15 minutes; from England to Australia in five days 21 hours (en route to New Zealand in 1936); and in the spectacular solo record time of five days 18 hours 15 minutes from Australia back to England in 1937.