** 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.

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.

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.

Queenstown also now hosts an annual International Jazz Festival.

Queenstown is now experiencing a revival, reflected in the popularity of its inaugural arts and heritage festival in 2010.

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

Bourke was captured and tied to a wheel of a wagon under a tree ( now known as Bourke's Tree ) until troopers from nearby Queenstown arrived.

In her honour, the road alongside the eastern edge of the Park was called Victoria Road, and was linked to Queens Road by Victoria Circus ( now the Queenstown Roundabout ).

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.

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.

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.

Both his parents were, on the other hand, born in Ireland, his father Edward Hanley around 1865, in Dublin, and his mother, Bridget Roache, in Queenstown, now Cobh, County Cork, around 1867.

Edwards was born on 3 October 1894 in Queenstown, ( now named Cobh ), County Cork.

What is now MD 18 was first paved in the 1910s from Centreville to Queenstown along with short segments in Grasonville and Chester.

Flying resumed in 1952 using an Auster J1-A Autocrat, registration ZK-BDX ( now preserved inside the terminal of Queenstown Airport ).

Mathew died on 8 December 1856 in Cobh ( then known as Queenstown ), County Cork after suffering a stroke.

The east from East London and Queenstown towards the KwaZulu-Natal border – a region known previously as Transkei – is lush grassland on rolling hills, punctuated by deep gorges with intermittent forest.

It was initially named Queenstown but was soon known as Victoria.

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

The name is ironic, the piece of ground known as the Holy Ground was the town's red-light district in the 19th century when the town, then known as Queenstown, was a major stopping point for ships crossing the Atlantic and had a large throughput of seafarers.

Initially known as the Singapore Government Chinese Middle School when it occupied the premises of Seng Poh Primary School, it was later renamed Queenstown Government Chinese Middle School when it was moved to Strathmore Avenue.

A hub for shipping and receiving, Queenstown was attacked by English troops during the War of 1812.

Queenstown, New Zealand, where jetboats are used extensively for adventure tourism, claims to be the jetboat capital of the world, and jetboats are very common for many coastal and riverine tourism activities in the country, such as the Excitor in the Bay of Islands.

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

In early 2010 Queenstown featured for 17 minutes in I Hate Luv Storys a Bollywood Super-hit.

Queenstown was the base for filming the George Lucas 1988 fantasy film Willow.

Filming of the 1981 film Race for the Yankee Zephyr took place in and around Queenstown, the first major motion picture production for the area.

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.

An alternate explanation for the name given by locals is that early Queenstown settlers, upon seeing the mountain range during sunset one evening, named them the Remarkables to describe the sight.

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.

On 11 April 1912 Queenstown was the final port of call for the RMS Titanic as she set out across the Atlantic on her ill-fated maiden voyage.

During World War I, Queenstown was a naval base for British and American destroyers operating against U-boats that preyed upon allied merchant vessels.

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.

Fancourt was mentioned in dispatches later in the war for his efforts on flotilla escort and patrol duties from Queenstown, Ireland.