** 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 a town in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States.

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.

Some of the small population is located in the small cluster of towns near Macquarie Harbour-Strahan and Queenstown, these were linked in their connection with the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company

Queenstown Road is located on the early stage of the South Western Main Line but with only 2 platforms in use.

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.

It is located on State Highway 8, the main route from Dunedin to the inland towns of Queenstown and Alexandra.

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.

Queenstown is located at the central-western end of the island about five to eight kilometres from the city.

It is located at the southern part of the Queenstown Planning Area, an urban planning zone under the Urban Redevelopment Authority.

Some of the company's notable property developments include the highest condominium, Queens which comprises 722 units located opposite Queenstown MRT station.

Dover is a relatively small neighbourhood of Singapore, located in Queenstown.

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.

The division headquarters is located at Queensway, behind Alexandra Hospital, together with the Queenstown Police Centre and Alexandra Fire Station.

It is located in the Queenstown district and is sandwiched between the 38-storey Queens condominium and the new 43-storey HDB flats on the opposite side of the track.

The " Queenstown Experience ", located at the centre, has mostly permanent exhibitions of Irish history.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

In Ireland, the first fish and chips were sold by an Italian immigrant, Giuseppe Cervi, who mistakenly stepped off an America-bound ship at Cobh ( then called Queenstown ) in County Cork and walked all the way to Dublin.

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.

* Queenstown Airport at Frankton

At the outbreak of the Second Boer War, Allenby was returned to his regiment, and the Inniskillings were embarked at Queenstown before landing at Cape Town, South Africa, on 11 December 1899 during the ‘ Black Week ’ in which the British Army suffered reverses at Colenso, Magersfontein and Stormberg.

White Star began operating again in 1871 between New York and Liverpool ( with a call at Queenstown ).

* Liverpool to New York, calling at Queenstown, Ireland

* Liverpool to Boston, calling at Queenstown, Ireland

* Southampton to New York, calling at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland

* Liverpool to Montreal, calling at Queenstown, Ireland.

The Highlanders usually play at least one regular season match outside of Dunedin, at either Rugby Park in Invercargill or the Queenstown Events Centre in Queenstown.

Prior to 2007 the regular season match was usually played at Rugby Park, however in 2007 they played a match at the Queenstown Events Centre.

He was transferred to command of Force E at Queenstown by orders of Churchill and Fisher, for his perceived failure to do this as submarines continued to pass the Channel to threaten shipping in the Irish Sea.

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.