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1642, First recorded European sighting of New Zealand

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Recovery party at Tangiwai
Henry Williams
Map showing the tunnels at Arras
Dunedin railway station
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Questions for Polly Plum
Caesar, the Anzac dog
Evelyn Brooke
Merchant Navy propaganda poster
Women fundraising for Belgium, First World War
Anti USA-prohibition poster
Summer holidays
HMS Achilles
Union Steam Ship Company flag
Tangiwai train wreckage
Survivors of the Wahine disaster
Murderers Bay, 1642
Erebus crash site
Bishop Pompallier
Nuclear-free badges
Cooking on a hangi
Christchurch Bridge of Remembrance war memorial
Teaching te reo Maori
Map of Greece and Crete, 1941

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