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8 unusual facts about Queenstown


Hunters Oak Golf Classic

The event was part of the Futures Tour's schedule from 2003 to 2007 and was held at Hunters Oak Golf Club in Queenstown, Maryland.

Jetboat

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.

New Zealand Open

From 2007 to 2010, the tournament was played at The Hills Golf Club in Arrowtown, near Queenstown, although it was not held in 2008 due to the rescheduling of the event from December to March.

Philosophers Ridge

The Gap the point where the Queenstown to Gormanston road (originally known as the Queenstown to Gormanston Dray Road - now known as the Lyell Highway) passed over the ridge, is the southern most named feature that remains.

Queenstown, Eastern Cape

It is currently the commercial, administrative, and educational centre of the prosperous surrounding farming district.

Rex Distin Martienssen

Rex Distin Martienssen, ARIBA, CIAM, 26 February 1905 Queenstown - 23 August 1942 Pretoria, was a South African architect who was greatly influenced by Le Corbusier and spearheaded a modernist architectural movement in South Africa.

Steve Millen

Millen has also been active in designing and engineering race cars for hill climbing, notably the Pikes Peak and Race to the Sky hillclimb in Queenstown, New Zealand.

Yao Chen

On November 17, 2012 Yao Chen married cinematographer Cao Yu in Queenstown, New Zealand.


2013 Pub Charity Sevens

It will be the 10th and final year Queenstown has hosted the event, with matches to be played at the Queenstown Recreational Ground and Jack Reid Park in Arrowtown.

Carl Frederick Holden

He saw service in World War I on destroyers based in Queenstown, Ireland.

CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1883

At the time the Four-coupled Joy locomotives entered service in 1883, the Eastern System mainline from East London was open as far as Queenstown, the two Midland System mainlines from Port Elizabeth were open to Graaff Reinet and approaching Rosmead via Cradock, while the Western System mainline from Beaufort West was approaching De Aar.

Commonwealth MRT Station

Together with Queenstown and Clementi stations, an additional pedestrian link bridge linking the station to two new exits will be built, one on each side of the road.

The screen doors were installed on January 2011 and started operations on 28 April 2011 together with Queenstown.

Eunos MRT Station

Station is installed with MJ Air Tech High Volume, Low Speed (HVLS) Pro-Jet fans and started operations on 11 September 2012 together with Queenstown.

Frankton, New Zealand

Frankton, Otago is located close to Queenstown in the South Island

Guion Line

In 1848, John Stanton Williams (c. 1810-1876) and Stephen Barker Guion (1820-1885) formed the New York firm of Williams and Guion to operate the Black Star Line of sailing packets on the Liverpool-Queenstown-New York route.

International College of Management, Sydney

ICMS is affiliated with the hotel school "Cesar Ritz Colleges" in Switzerland,and "Queenstown Resort College".

Jarvis Street Baptist Church

The main façade of the building is made out brown stone that is obtained from the regions of Queenstown.

Maryland Route 18

MD 18 is the main east–west local highway on Kent Island and east to Centreville, serving the centers of Stevensville, Chester, Kent Narrows, Grasonville, and Queenstown that are bypassed by U.S. Route 50 and US 301.

Mount Dobson

Located 2.25 hours from Christchurch and 3 hours from Queenstown, it claims an easy access road, the highest car park of any ski resort in New Zealand, and the earliest start to the season in 2006.

New Zealand State Highway 97

The highway was gazetted in 2004 to reflect the increasing amount of traffic between the tourist destinations of Queenstown and Fiordland National Park and provides a bypass of the town of Lumsden, where SH 6 and 94 intersect.

Queenstown Events Centre

On January 1st 2014, at the Queenstown Events Centre New Zealand Black Caps' Corey Anderson broke Shahid Afridi's 17 year old record of the fastest ODI hundred by one ball, scoring his in 36 balls.

Queenstown Gardens

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.

Reginald Tupper

After the Armistice, in January 1919, he was promoted to Admiral and appointed Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches, based at Queenstown (Cobh) in southern Ireland.

Roundhill Ski Area

Roundhill Ski Area is a family owned and run ski area in Canterbury, New Zealand, near the town of Lake Tekapo, 1.5 hours from Timaru and 3 hours from both Christchurch & Queenstown.

Von Tunzelmann

Nicholas von Tunzelmann (1828-1900), one of the first European explorers to settle in the town of Queenstown, New Zealand in the 1860s.


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