Queenstown
Queenstown is a world renowned resort town in the South Island of New Zealand. The town sits on the edge of Lake Wakatipu and is surrounded by the Southern Alps.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 15,500 residents
- Description: resort town in Otago Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Queenstown, New Zealand” and “Tāhuna”
- Neighbors: Arthur’s Pass National Park and Mount Aspiring National Park
Places of Interest
Highlights include Williams Cottage and Queenstown Gardens.
Williams Cottage
Historic building
Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Williams Cottage is a historic building.
Queenstown Gardens
Garden
Photo: FRED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Queenstown Gardens, located next to the town of Queenstown, New Zealand, is a botanical garden which contains a variety of exotic and native trees and plants as well as a large pond and a range of facilities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Frankton and Kelvin Peninsula.
Frankton
Suburb
Frankton is a suburb of the town of Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand, it was formerly a separate settlement. Frankton is situated 6 km east of Queenstown.
Kelvin Peninsula
Quarter
Kelvin Peninsula is a peninsula on the shore of Lake Wakatipu in New Zealand's Otago Region. The peninsula lies between the main body of Lake Wakatipu and the lake's Frankton Arm and its outlet, the Kawarau River.
Arthurs Point
Quarter
Photo: Grapeman4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arthurs Point is a suburb of Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand. It is situated near Queenstown Hill and Bowen Peak and is not far from central Queenstown. Arthurs Point is situated 5 km north of Queenstown.
Queenstown
- Categories: city, urban area, and locality
- Location: Queenstown-Lakes, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-45.0322° or 45° 1′ 56″ southLongitude
168.661° or 168° 39′ 40″ eastPopulation
15,500Elevation
328 metres (1,076 feet)Named after
CobhIATA airport code
ZQNUnited Nations Location Code
NZ ZQNOpen location code
4V6CXM96+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 175734291OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Queenstown” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوينزتاون”
- Aragonese: “Queenstown”
- Armenian: “Քուինսթաուն”
- Asturian: “Queenstown”
- Basque: “Queenstown (Zeelanda Berria)”
- Basque: “Queenstown”
- Catalan: “Queenstown”
- Cebuano: “Queenstown”
- Chinese: “皇后鎮”
- Chinese: “皇后镇”
- Czech: “Queenstown”
- Danish: “Queenstown”
- Dutch: “Queenstown”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوينزتاون”
- Estonian: “Queenstown”
- Finnish: “Queenstown”
- French: “Queenstown”
- German: “Queenstown”
- Hebrew: “קווינסטאון”
- Hindi: “क्वीन्सटाउन”
- Hungarian: “Queenstown”
- Indonesian: “Queenstown, Selandia Baru”
- Interlingue: “Queenstown (Nov-Zeland)”
- Interlingue: “Queenstown”
- Italian: “Distretto di Queenstown”
- Italian: “Queenstown”
- Japanese: “クイーンズタウン”
- Korean: “퀸스타운”
- Macedonian: “Квинстаун”
- Malay: “Queenstown, New Zealand”
- Malayalam: “ക്വീൻസ്ടൗൺ,ന്യൂസീലൻഡ്”
- Malayalam: “ക്വീൻസ്ടൗൺ”
- Maori: “Tāhuna”
- Marathi: “क्वीन्सटाउन (न्यूझीलंड)”
- Marathi: “क्वीन्सटाउन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Queenstown”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Queenstown på New Zealand”
- Norwegian: “Queenstown”
- Persian: “کویینزتاون، نیوزیلند”
- Polish: “Queenstown”
- Portuguese: “Queenstown, New Zealand”
- Portuguese: “Queenstown”
- Portuguese: “Tāhuna”
- Romanian: “Queenstown”
- Russian: “Квинстаун”
- Russian: “Куинстаун”
- Scots: “Queenstown”
- Serbian: “Нови Завјет”
- Slovenian: “Queenstown, Nova Zelandija”
- Slovenian: “Queenstown”
- Spanish: “Queenstown, Nueva Zelanda”
- Spanish: “Queenstown”
- Swedish: “Queenstown, Nya Zeeland”
- Swedish: “Queenstown”
- Turkish: “Queenstown, Yeni Zelanda”
- Turkish: “Queenstown”
- Ukrainian: “Квінстаун”
- Ukrainian: “Куінстаун”
- Urdu: “کوئنزٹاؤن، نیوزی لینڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Queenstown”
- Welsh: “Queenstown”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع قوینزٹاؤن-لیکس”
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