New Zealand - Otago
- Aerial view of Queenstown
- #3 of 5
- 1978
Queenstown
- Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island.
- The town is built around an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin Z-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has views of nearby mountains such as The Remarkables, Cecil Peak, Walter Peak and just above the town, Ben Lomond and Queenstown Hill.
- European explorers William Gilbert Rees and Nicholas von Tunzelmann were the first non-Maoris to settle the area. Rees established a high country farm in the location of Queenstown's current town centre in 1860, but the discovery of gold in the Arrow River in 1862 encouraged Rees to convert his wool shed into a hotel named the Queen's Arms, now known as Eichardt's.
- There are various apocryphal accounts of how the town of Queenstown was named however the following is the most likely: When William Rees first arrived in the area and built his homestead, the area was known as The Station although miners soon referred to it as The Camp from 1860 to 1862. The miners, and especially the Irish, had taken an interest in the ceremony held for a small town called Cobh in Ireland which was renamed Queenstown in honour of Queen Victoria in 1850. They may have had their own ceremony at the intersection of Rees and Beach Streets replicating some of the elements in the renaming of the Irish town.
- Tāhuna, the Māori-language name for Queenstown, means "shallow bay".
(Reference: Wikipedia)
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Image source: LINZ CC-BY 3.0
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Date taken: 14/02/1978 Survey Number: SN5211
Copyright: Crown Elevation: 18000
Run Number: A Photo Number: 2 Scale: 18000