New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition (1889)
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World's Fair
World's fair, World fair, Universal Exposition, and World Expo are various large public exhibitions held in different parts of the world. The first Expo was held in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom, in 1851, under the title "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All...
held in Dunedin, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
in 1889 which celebrated that country and the South Seas
Pacific Ocean
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. Exhibitons included New Zealand's Eiffel Tower, a wooden structure based on the Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower
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and used to display artefacts from the Otis Elevator Company
Otis Elevator Company
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Related Fairs
- 1865 in Dunedin - New Zealand Exhibition (1865) from January 12 - May 6, 1865
- 1885 in WellingtonWellingtonWellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
- New Zealand Industrial Exhibition (1885) - 1906 in ChristchurchChristchurchChristchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
- International Exhibition (1906)International Exhibition (1906)The New Zealand International Exhibition opened 1 November 1906 in Hagley Park, Christchurch, New Zealand. Nearly two million people visited the exhibition during the next few months. A branch railway line was built across North Hagley Park to service the exhibition... - 1925 in Dunedin - New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition (1925)New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition (1925)The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition was a world's fair held in Dunedin, New Zealand from November 1925 until May 1926 which celebrated that country and the South Seas...
1925-1926 - 1939 in Wellington - New Zealand Centennial ExhibitionNew Zealand Centennial ExhibitionThe New Zealand Centennial Exhibition took place over six months from Wednesday 8 November 1939 until 4 May 1940. It celebrated one hundred years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and the subsequent mass European settlement of New Zealand...
from November 8 1939 until May 4 1940