During the following years, Hackett performed a number of jumps from bridges and other structures ( including the Eiffel Tower ), building public interest in the sport, and opening the world's first permanent commercial bungee site ; the Kawarau Bridge Bungy at Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand.

Jumping at Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand, April 2007.

According to Joshua Coffin, the early settlers included " Captain John Pike, the ancestor of General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who was killed at the battle of Queenstown in 1813 ; Thomas Bloomfield, the ancestor of Joseph Bloomfield, some years governor of New Jersey, for whom the township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named ; John Bishop, senior and junior ; Jonathan Haynes ; Henry Jaques ; George March ; Stephen Kent ; Abraham Toppan, junior ; Elisha Ilsley ; Hugh March ; John Bloomfield ; Samuel Moore ; Nathaniel Webster ; John Ilsley ; and others.

The new town planning concept was introduced into Singapore with the building of the first New Town, Queenstown, from July 1952 to 1973 by the country's public housing authority, the Housing and Development Board.

* Queenstown, New Zealand, a resort town in Otago, New Zealand

Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island.

Queenstown is a major centre for snow sports in New Zealand, with people from all over the country and many parts of the world travelling to ski at the four main mountain skifields ( Cardrona Alpine Resort, Coronet Peak, The Remarkables and Treble Cone ).

Locally, Queenstown has a reputation as one of New Zealand's wine and cuisine centres.

Queenstown has an international airport with flights from Australia by Air New Zealand, Qantas, Virgin Australia and Jetstar and in particular, from Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney ( the frequency is much increased over the ski season and during summer ).

Queenstown Airport is New Zealand's busiest helicopter base, and is also heavily used for tourist ' flightseeing ', especially to Milford Sound and Mount Cook, using both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.

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Taupo is one of the few towns in New Zealand that have never had a link to the national rail network ( the others being Queenstown and Nelson ), although there have been proposals in the past.

There are ten Nando's in New Zealand: Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tuaranga, Rotorua, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown.

In 1986, Ged Hay began taking his body board down the Kawarau River near Queenstown in New Zealand while on his days off as a rafting guide.

Several companies operate riverboarding or sledging excursions in New Zealand near Queenstown, Wanaka, and Rotorua.

* Mad Dog Riverboarding, Queenstown, New Zealand

* Serious Fun Riversurfing, Queenstown, New Zealand

* Frogz White Water Sledging, Queenstown, New Zealand

In New Zealand, there are a number of colleges where students can undertake an internship whilst studying-for example Queenstown Resort College.

* Queenstown, New Zealand

On 10 June the same year Jetstar commenced domestic New Zealand flights between Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown.

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Image: Lake Wakatipu & Remarkable Mountains. jpg | Lake Wakatipu & Remarkable Mountains in Queenstown, New Zealand

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There is now a street named after this base in Queenstown, New Zealand — the street is called Vanda Place and is located just a few hundred metres from Scott Place.

On 11 November 2011, Tindall was fined £ 25, 000 by the Rugby Football Union and was removed from its elite player squad as a result of his throwing a dwarf in Queenstown, New Zealand during the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

The primary road access to the Queenstown area is via State Highway 6 ( SH6 ), which travels from Cromwell through the Kawarau Gorge to Frankton, where a 9 km spur ( SH6A ) leads to the CBD and connects with the Glenorchy Road.

Zeehan was an important railway location — the end of the Emu Bay Railway, and the beginning of the government-owned Strahan-Zeehan Railway service that connected to Strahan and Regatta Point, where the Mount Lyell Railway connected to Queenstown.

Lying in a gap in the surrounding hills, it is the location of a major junction halfway along the north-south road from Queenstown to Invercargill, where it is crossed by the east-west road from Gore to Te Anau.

He now lives in Queenstown, Central Otago, New Zealand where he is a vigneron of his own vineyard Hawkshead Wine and producer of pinot noir, pinot gris, riesling and sauvignon blanc.

It is also where Queenstown district got its name Boh Beh Kang, or a river with no source.

The state highway heads northeast as Main Street through the town of Queenstown, where the highway intersects MD 456 ( Del Rhodes Avenue ) and passes near the historic home Bowlingly.

Born in Cape Town, Scholefield was educated at Queen ’ s College, Queenstown and the University of Cape Town where he read Eng.

The name is derived from Mount Lyell, the mountain peak where copper was found in the late 19th century, and the site of the Mount Lyell copper mine, and the sole reason for the existence of Queenstown.

This station resembles Queenstown and Commonwealth stations, where it is built in between the road and beside it are only housing estates.

The windjammers carrying the bagged grain called at Falmouth, England or Queenstown, Ireland for orders of where the grain was to be taken.

In 1860 Dugmore moved to the town of Queenstown where he spent the rest of his life.

Caning takes place at several establishments around Singapore, notably Changi Prison but also including Queenstown Remand Centre, where Michael P. Fay was caned in 1994.

It is more likely for the settlement to be named after a prince based on the fact that three nearby towns are named similarly: Kingston, Queenstown ( Later named Pennington ) and Princessville.

Additionally, larger skifields in the vicinity of Wanaka and Queenstown are within a day's return drive of Omarama.

As a resort centre, there are many bus services that operate into Queenstown, with most being for package tours, but daily services for the local or itinerant are available to and from Invercargill, Dunedin and Christchurch, which are the main cities closest to Queenstown.

The mountains surrounding Queenstown are often snowcapped through winter.

In tourist towns, such as Queenstown in the South Island, some exemptions are granted by the district council for selected shops to open on Good Friday.

There are regular coach and minibus services to Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Queenstown and the Mackenzie Country, leaving from outside the Visitor Information Centre, which provides booking facilities and other travel services.

These regions are Alexandra, Gisborne, Oamaru, Queenstown, Tokoroa, Wairarapa and Wanaka.

* July 11 – October 3-Military installations at the Treaty Ports in the Republic ( Berehaven, Spike Island at Queenstown, and Lough Swilly ) are handed over from British control to the Government of Ireland, under terms of the Anglo-Irish Trade Agreement.

The distant views down and over Lake Hayes, Arrowtown and the airport to Queenstown are stunning.

Synergies with tourism are also important to the wine industry, and the region is well-located to benefit from this with Queenstown, New Zealand's best-known year-round tourist destination, on its doorstep.

*** 21 prisoners are killed in a cell fire at the Queenstown Prison

* 7 March – A guerrilla and a civilian is killed by police during a raid in Queenstown, six policemen are wounded in the raid

MD 18 is the main east – west local highway on Kent Island and east to Centreville, serving the centers of Stevensville, Chester, Kent Narrows, Grasonville, and Queenstown that are bypassed by U. S. Route 50 and US 301.

The institute has several campuses around Invercargill ; the Main Campus is situated in Tay St, SIT Downtown in Don St, and SIT Sound in Deveron St. Satellite campuses are also located in Gore, Queenstown, and Christchurch.

In steerage, the plot focuses on the experiences of six or so Irish immigrants, who are first depicted approaching the ship from a tender in the harbor of Queenstown, Ireland.

The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, and the Tasmanian State Library in Hobart are the main holdings of the record, while the late Eric Thomas's collection in the ' Galley Museum ' in Queenstown is on a par with both.