Editing Harold Holt (section)

==Memorials and other legacies==
[[File:Harold Holt Swim Centre.JPG|thumb|upright|Melbourne's Harold Holt Swim Centre]]

[[File:Harold Holt bust.jpg|upright|thumb|Bust of Harold Holt located in the [[Prime Ministers Avenue]] in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens]]

Harold Holt is commemorated by the [[Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/explore-stonnington/sport-and-recreation/swim/|title=Harold Holt Swim Centre|publisher=Stonnington.vic.gov.au|access-date=12 January 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130081144/http://www.stonnington.vic.gov.au/explore-stonnington/sport-and-recreation/swim/|archive-date=30 January 2012}}</ref> in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Iris. The complex was under construction at the time of Holt's disappearance, and since he was the local member, it was named in his memory. The irony of commemorating a man who is presumed to have drowned with a swimming pool has been a source of wry amusement for many Australians.<ref>[[Bryson, Bill]]. ''[[In a Sunburned Country]]'' (Broadway Books, New York, 2000) {{ISBN|0-7679-0385-4}}</ref> The swimming pool within the [[1st Australian Support Compound]] in South Vietnam was also named for him.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kelley|first=Michael|title=Where we were in Vietnam|publisher=Hellgate Press|year=2002|isbn=978-1555716257|page=390}}</ref>

In 1968, the newly commissioned [[United States Navy]] [[Knox-class frigate|''Knox''-class destroyer escort]] {{USS|Harold E. Holt|FF-1074|6}} was named in his honour. It was launched by Holt's widow Dame Zara at the [[Vigor Shipyards|Todd Shipyards]] in Los Angeles on 3 May 1969, and was the first American warship to bear the name of a foreign leader.

In 1969, a plaque commemorating Holt was bolted to the seafloor off Cheviot Beach after a memorial ceremony. It bears the inscription:

{{quote|In memory of Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, who loved the sea and disappeared hereabouts on 17 December 1967.}}

Other memorials include:

* the suburb of [[Holt, Australian Capital Territory]];
*the [[Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt]];
* the [[Division of Holt]], an electoral district in the [[Australian House of Representatives]] in Victoria;
* a wing for boarders at [[Wesley College (Victoria)|Wesley College, Melbourne]];
* the Harold Holt Fisheries Reserves&nbsp;– five protected areas in southern [[Port Phillip]], located at [[Swan Bay]], [[Point Lonsdale]], [[Mud Islands]], [[Point Nepean]] and [[Pope's Eye]] (The Annulus). 
* a memorial stone within the 'Prime Ministers Garden' of [[Melbourne General Cemetery]]

By way of a folk memorial, he is recalled in the [[Australian English vocabulary|Australian vernacular]] expression "do a Harold Holt" (or "do the Harry"), [[rhyming slang]] for "do a bolt" meaning "to disappear suddenly and without explanation", although this is usually employed in the context of disappearance from a social gathering rather than a case of presumed death.<ref>Lambert, James (2004) ''The Macquarie Australian Slang Dictionary,'' p. 69 (Macquarie Library: Sydney) {{ISBN|1-876429-52-6}}</ref>

In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1968, Holt's widow Zara was made a Dame Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]], becoming Dame Zara Holt DBE.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1067227 |title=It's an Honour |publisher=Itsanhonour.gov.au |date=8 June 1968 |access-date=25 April 2010}}</ref> She later married for a third time, to a Liberal party colleague of Holt's, [[Jeff Bate]], and was then known as Dame Zara Bate.

The mineral [[holtite]] is named in his honor.  It was discovered in Greenbushes Tinfield, Western Australia and formally described in 1971.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pryce |first1=M. W. |title=Holtite: a new mineral allied to dumortierite |journal=Mineralogical Magazine |date=1971 |volume=38 |issue=293 |pages=21–25|doi=10.1180/minmag.1971.038.293.02 |bibcode=1971MinM...38...21P |s2cid=251024619 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Holtite |url=https://www.mindat.org/min-1925.html |website=Mindat.org |access-date=13 October 2022}}</ref>