RELATED TO FILM: ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE PT 1
Events
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1 December 1898
First movie shot in NZ
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2 May 1868
First shipment of salmon and trout ova arrives
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17 August 1942
Attack on the Nino Bixio
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20 May 1865
Loss of the City of Dunedin with all hands
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29 April 1881
131 perish in worst civilian shipwreck in NZ waters
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16 April 1912
News of Titanic sinking reaches NZ
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3 February 1868
Killer storm sweeps the country
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1 April 1981
New Zealand Film Archive launched
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23 October 1915
Ten NZ nurses lost in Marquette sinking
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4 January 1958
Hillary leads NZ party to South Pole
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27 November 1940
Liner sunk by German raiders off East Cape
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29 October 1995
Forgotten silver film hoax screened
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15 August 1951
Troop ship Wahine wrecked en route to Korean War
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15 September 1976
Lyttelton–Wellington ferry service ends
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20 January 1957
Scott Base opened in Antarctica
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3 January 1930
First NZ-made 'talkie' screened
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20 August 1940
Turakina sunk by German raider in Tasman
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20 September 1954
Mazengarb report released
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11 August 1962
Picton ferry Aramoana enters service
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8 March 1929
First 'talkie' draws huge crowds in Wellington
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22 March 1994
Kiwis win Oscars for 'The piano'
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29 May 1953
Hillary and Tenzing conquer Everest
Biographies
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Edmund Hillary
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Len Lye
Articles
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The Royal New Zealand Navy
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HMNZS Leander
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Royal NZ Navy's Bird-class ships
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Container shipping
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The 1950s
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Merchant marine
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Battle of the River Plate
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Antarctica and New Zealand
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Pencarrow Lighthouse
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Oamaru Harbour
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Edmund Hillary
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Erebus disaster
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Wahine disaster
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New Zealand disasters timeline
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Korean War
Community contributions