** 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.

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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.

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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 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.

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 also has a reputation for being the ' Adventure Capital of the World '.

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.