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June 5, 2026

Steampunk festival creates an unlikely capital for Victorian style and sci-fi oddity in New Zealand

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY
Associated Press

OAMARU, New Zealand — The woman in the pink frock coat announced herself as steam curled from a strange brass contraption on her back.

“I am Lady Sarsaparilla Ovabyte, of the Coventry Ovabytes,” she said. “We are purveyors of fine cordials.”


 
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