** Irish-born Australian Catholic Bishop Daniel Mannix is detained onboard ship off Queenstown and prevented from landing in Ireland or from speaking in the main Irish Catholic communities elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

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.

Major centres of what is now the Otago Region of the old province include Dunedin ( the principal city of the region ), Oamaru ( made famous by Janet Frame ), Balclutha, Alexandra, and the major tourist centres Queenstown and Wanaka.

Queenstown is located at ( 38. 989086 ,-76. 156645 ).

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 unincorporated community of Queenstown is also located in the town.

Queenstown is the name of several places in the world including:

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

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.

Queenstown is now known for its commerce-oriented tourism, especially adventure and ski tourism.

According to the 2006 census, the usually resident population of the Queenstown urban area ( including Fernhill, Frankton and Kelvin Heights ) is 10, 416, an increase of 22. 1 % since 2001.

A resort town, Queenstown is a centre for adventure tourism.

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 ).

Queenstown is also gaining popularity as a honeymoon destination.

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

As with the rest of Central Otago, Queenstown lies within the rain shadow of the Southern Alps, but being closer to the west coast the town is more susceptible to rain-bearing fronts compared to nearby Cromwell, Wanaka and Alexandra.

Queenstown is accessible by road and air but not by rail ( similarly to Taupo and Nelson ).

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.

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.

Queenstown is the departure point for a large number of day trips to the similarly famous Milford Sound, which entails a return trip of approximately 12 hours.

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.

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

The range is clearly visible from the nearby town of Queenstown.

Queenstown is a town in the West Coast region of the island of Tasmania.

The town was the base of the Queenstown council up until amalgamation with other west coast councils in the 1990s.

In 1849 the name of the town was changed to Queenstown to honour Queen Victoria who visited Ireland in that year.

He is a successful golf course designer having had major input into the Formosa Country Club east of Auckland, Millbrook at the resort town of Queenstown, and ' The Dunes ' course at Matarangi on the Coromandel Peninsula.

Being on the tourist highway between Christchurch and Queenstown, tourism is fast becoming a major industry within the town.

Originally called Queenstown, the area was surveyed in 1858 and a town proclaimed on 25 February 1861.

Today Winton thrives as an agricultural service town and stop-off for travellers on the Invercargill – Queenstown highway.

State Highway 6 passes through the town between Queenstown and Invercargill.

It was clearly in competition with the town further south, Queenstown, and while the silver boom lasted it was known as the Silver City.

Coronet Peak is a commercial skifield in Otago, New Zealand located 18 kilometres to the northeast of the town of Queenstown and seven kilometres west of Arrowtown, on the southern slopes of the 1, 649 metre peak which shares its name.

It is approximately 45 kilometres by road or boat from Queenstown, the nearest large town.

Developed by the Singapore Improvement Trust ( SIT ) in the 1950s and subsequently the Housing and Development Board ( HDB ) in the 1960s, Queenstown is the first satellite town in Singapore.

In the 1970s, the success of the new town led to the development of two nearby neighbourhoods-Buona Vista Estate and Holland Village, with Queenstown new town as a model.

In 1782, the Queen Anne ’ s county courthouse was moved from its original location in Queenstown, Maryland to an area that would, twelve years later, be named Centreville.

Queenstown was the original seat of Queen Anne ’ s county, before the location changed to Centreville, Maryland.

* St. Peter's Church ( Queenstown, Maryland ), listed on the NRHP in Queen Anne's County, Maryland

The Queen River was for most of the history of the Mount Lyell company the recipient of mining effluent and the Queenstown sewage-which then continued into the King River and consequently the Macquarie Harbour.

Queenstown is the terminus of the West Coast Wilderness Railway, which travels southwards alongside the Queen River, and then along the northern slopes of the King River to the port of Strahan in Macquarie Harbour.

It was renamed Queenstown in 1850 to commemorate a visit by Queen Victoria.

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 ..

Queenstown was named after Queen Elizabeth to mark her coronation in 1952.

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

* Queen River runs through Queenstown, then to join with the King River to the west of Mount Huxley

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.

Queenstown, named after Queen Victoria, is a town in the middle of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, roughly half way in between the towns of Cathcart and Sterkstroom.