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Opening the Games

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Opening the Games

The opening of the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland included this stylised model of the Endeavour(in which British navigator James Cook first travelled to New Zealand). The games took place in New Zealand’s sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) year.

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New Zealand Herald

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W. David McIntyre, Empire and Commonwealth – From empire to Commonwealth, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33235/opening-the-games (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by W. David McIntyre, published 16 April 2012.