The unincorporated community of Queenstown is also located in the town.

Queenstown is also gaining popularity as a honeymoon destination.

Neighbouring, historic Arrowtown also features excellent restaurants and bars, and Queenstown lies close to the centre of a small wine producing region, reputed to be the world's southernmost.

Queenstown also now hosts an annual International Jazz Festival.

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.

The broadcaster also has newsrooms in Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, New Plymouth, Hawkes Bay, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown.

Many international tourists also spend time in Christchurch, Queenstown, Rotorua, and Wellington.

There is also road access directly to Queenstown via the Shotover Gorge and a third route via the picturesque Lake Hayes.

He attended St. James-the-Less Primary School ( now F. E. Pollard ), Kitty, and also briefly attended a Roman Catholic School in Queenstown.

Moreover, on the map produced by the station managers, South West Trains, the station is also shown as " Queenstown Road ".

File: Queenstown Road stn signage 2010. JPG | New signage, also lacking "( Battersea )" suffix

In 2002 the Mount Cook Group sold Coronet Peak and The Remarkables to a consortioum of Queenstown businesspeople, now NZSki Ltd, who also bought Mount Hutt.

The Dart River, as many other areas in and around the Glenorchy and Queenstown area, has also been the location for many scenes filmed for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Cooper also twice served as Mayor of Queenstown, from 1968 to 1975 and 1995 to 2001.

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

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.

The first section paved as a state road was between Centreville and Queenstown by 1919 ; there were also short pieces of state road paved in Chester and east of Grasonville by 1921.

The date was chosen to coincide with the Mount Lyell Twenty-Five Year Reunion Dinner, which was held in Queenstown on the same weekend and included many past employees who also have an association with Lake Margaret.

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.

As a wider part of the Manukau Harbour Crossing Project, the motorway is also to be widened between Walmsley Road in the south and Queenstown Road in the north from four lanes to six lanes.

Mount Lyell was also the operator of the Queenstown to Regatta Point railway from 1893 to 1963, which used the Abt rack system of cog railway for steep sections.

It also has an exhibition on the history of the RMS Titanic, whose last port of call before it sank was Cobh ( then Queenstown ).

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 built around an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin Z-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has spectacular views of nearby mountains such as The Remarkables, Cecil Peak, Walter Peak and just above the town ; Ben Lomond and Queenstown Hill.

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

Queenstown Airport is located 10 km from town and has scheduled flights to Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

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 ).

Local lore has it that a Titanic crew member John Coffey, a native of Queenstown, jumped ship although there is no record of him on the crew list.

A tributary, the Queen River, carried pollutants from mining operations in the Queenstown and flowed into the lower part of the King River for almost 100 years. It is estimated that 100 million tonnes of tailings were disposed of into the Queen River This has been stopped by measures taken by the mining companies and government, including the construction of tailings dams rather than direct deposit of wastes into the Queen River ..

Below or west of Teepookana, in the last 10 km of the River, extensive silting from the mine tailings that have been carried down from Queenstown, has created such a resource that at least one mining company has in the past proposed the mining of the deposits at the edge of the river, as well as the delta formed out into Macquarie Harbour due to the amount of economically viable materials in the silt.

It has a strategic location between the Lindis and the Haast passes, and acts as a hub between the towns of Wanaka, Queenstown and Alexandra.

Characterised by cold winters and hot, dry summers, the area is only lightly populated, although there has recently been considerable development around the tourist towns of Queenstown and Wanaka.

The Central Otago District Council, based in Alexandra, and the Queenstown Lakes District Council, based in Queenstown, administer territorial authority matters, while the Otago Regional Council has overview of environmental matters such as clean air and water resources.

Zeehan has the West Coast Pioneers Museum and Queenstown has the Galley Museum-both of these museums have very comprehensive collections which provide a good perspective on the history of the region.

It has a seiche of period 26. 7 minutes which, in Queenstown Bay, causes the water level to rise and fall some.

Since then Queenstown artist Garrick Tremain has been the principal cartoonist.

However, it has developed a distinct and unique identity today that is commonly not linked with Queenstown.

Being the first satellite HDB district in Singapore, Queenstown has one of the highest proportions of elderly aged 65 and above.

Due to the comparatively longer heritage of Queenstown district, local community has flourished.

MD 18S has a length of between US 50 and US 301 in Queenstown.

As a result, Queenstown earns its unwanted reputation as an " elderly district.