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Kōrero: Empire and Commonwealth

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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by Glenn Jeffrey

Permission of the New Zealand Herald must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

W. David McIntyre, Empire and Commonwealth – From empire to Commonwealth, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/33235/opening-the-games (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā W. David McIntyre, i tāngia i te 16 April 2012.