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Queenstown
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resort town in Otago Region, New Zealand
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Place details
- Locality
- Queenstown
- Region
- Otago
- Country
- New Zealand / Aotearoa
- Population
- 10,442
- Timezone
- Pacific/Auckland
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Key facts
- Country
- New Zealand
- Region
- Otago
- Territorial authority
- Queenstown-Lakes District
- Named
- January 1863
- Founded by
- William Gilbert Rees
- Electorates
- Southland , Te Tai Tonga
- Mayor
- John Glover
- Mps
- Joseph Mooney ( National ) Tākuta Ferris ( Te Pāti Māori )
- Urban
- 86.61 km (33.44 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 330 m (1,080 ft)
- Urban density
- 330/km (870/sq mi)
- District
- 53,800
- Time zone
- UTC+12:00 ( NZST )
- Summer dst
- UTC+13:00 (NZDT)
- Area code
- 03
- Local iwi
- Ngāi Tahu
- Website
- qldc .govt .nz
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- urban area
- Country
- New Zealand
- Located in
- Queenstown-Lakes District
- Population
- 16000
- Shares border with
- Arthur's Pass National Park
- Founded by
- William Gilbert Rees
- Official website
- www.queenstownnz.co.nz
- Image
- Queenstown from Bob's Peak.jpg
- Dialing code
- 03
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- Commons category
- Queenstown, New Zealand
- topic's main category
- Category:Queenstown, New Zealand
- Commons gallery
- Queenstown / Tāhuna
- postal code
- 9300
- inception
- 1863-01-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Queenstown, New Zealand
- described at URL
- openbeta.io/crag/8610f39f-9936-512d-94dc-0845d69c7276
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Encyclopedic overview
Queenstown (Māori: Tāhuna) is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is the seat and largest town in the Queenstown-Lakes District.
The town is on the northwestern edge of Lake Wakatipu, a long, thin, S-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has views of nearby mountains such as The Remarkables, Cecil Peak, Walter Peak and, just above the town, Ben Lomond and Queenstown Hill. Queenstown is known for its tourism businesses, especially adventure and ski tourism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Queenstown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.