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Twizel (centre distance) from the air, alongside Lake Ruataniwha. Lake Benmore is seen in the foreground. Twizel (/ ˈ t w aɪ z əl /) is the largest town in the Mackenzie District, in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand. The town was founded in 1968 to house construction workers on the Upper Waitaki Hydroelectric Scheme ...
Queenstown (Māori: Tāhuna) [3] 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 located on the northwestern edge of Lake Wakatipu, a long, thin, Z-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has views of nearby mountains such as The Remarkables, Cecil Peak, Walter Peak and just above the ...
Queenstown International Airport (IATA: ZQN, ICAO: NZQN) is an international airport located in Frankton, Otago, New Zealand, which serves the resort town of Queenstown. The airport handled 2.10 million passengers as of 2024, [ 3 ] making it the fourth busiest airport in New Zealand by passenger traffic.
Queenstown (28 km/45 minutes) Panorama of the Remarkables and surroundings from their northern end. The Remarkables mountain range, autumn 2015 This is the view toward Double Cone peak at The Remarkables when hiking towards Lake Alta, the glacier lake.
View of Coronet Peak during the ski season Coronet Peak is a commercial skifield in Queenstown, New Zealand located seven kilometres west of Arrowtown, on the southern slopes of the 1,649-metre peak which shares its name. A popular ski resort in the Southern Hemisphere, Coronet Peak offers a long snow season, well received skiing and snowboarding terrain and lift systems. Location The Peak is ...
Treble Cone controversially [citation needed] raised its season pass prices for the 2007 season to NZ$2200 after 31 May, with “early bird” pre-season passes being NZ$1500. The early bird pass was a free upgrade from a 50-day season pass to a premium pass due to public and local community consultation.
Millbrook Resort is a luxury resort near Queenstown, New Zealand. It is located 4 kilometres to the west of the historic gold-mining town of Arrowtown . The resort covers 650 acres of the Wakatipu Basin - a glacial valley bordered by the Crown Range , The Remarkables and Lake Wakatipu .
Originally known as "The Commonage", the park was surveyed in 1875 and 1880. A nine-hole golf course was established on the park by 1920, with barbed wire to keep the cows out. From 1940, the New Zealand Electricity Department held the park with the thought that Lake Wānaka might be used for hydro-electricity production. It was designated as a ...