This map from the 1919 Year Book shows where New Zealand would be situated if placed in the corresponding Northern Hemisphere latitude, but with east (instead of west) longitude, for comparison with countries on the Mediterranean Sea.
The map shows Tuatapere near to Trieste, Christchurch near Nice, Greymouth on Corsica, Wellington parallel with Barcelona and Auckland not far from Algiers.
The Europe shown in the map is pre-First World War and had undergone considerable changes since its outbreak. By 1919 the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires had effectively collapsed leaving the borders of central and eastern Europe in a state of flux, as new states (Finland, Poland, Hungary, etc) proclaimed their independence and victorious established powers (Italy, Serbia, Romania, etc) pressed their claims for territorial expansion.
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RELATED TO IF NEW ZEALAND WAS IN EUROPE MAP
Events
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31 May 1916
HMS New Zealand fights in the Battle of Jutland
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11 April 1916
Arrival of the NZ Division in France
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21 August 1915
New Zealand mounteds attack Hill 60
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16 October 1914
Main Body of NZEF sails to war
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5 August 1914
New Zealand enters the First World War
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28 June 1914
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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8 February 1915
Ambush in Turkey leads to death of New Zealand seaman
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24 September 1917
Bere Ferrers rail accident
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25 August 1916
First New Zealand soldier executed
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9 May 1915
Kiwi Wimbledon champ killed in battle
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2 April 1915
Anzac soldiers riot in Cairo's Wazzir brothel district
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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7 June 1917
The Battle of Messines
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26 June 1918
Wimmera sunk by German mine
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8 August 1915
Wellington Battalion captures Chunuk Bair
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29 August 1914
NZ force captures German Samoa
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7 October 1917
German 'Sea Devil' imprisoned in NZ
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15 December 1915
The evacuation of Gallipoli begins
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2 June 1917
NZ steamer captured by the Wolf
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