Arrowtown
Arrowtown, New Zealand
Arrowtown is a preserved 1860s gold-rush village 20 kilometres northeast of Queenstown — founded in 1862 after gold was discovered in the Arrow River, booming to a population of 7,000 during the rush, and stabilising at its current population of 2,500 after the gold ran out in the 1880s.
St Peter's Anglican Church
2 Church St, Queenstown, 9300, New Zealand
St Peter's Anglican Church is Queenstown's oldest surviving public building — a small Gothic Revival stone church on Church Street completed in 1863, during the gold-rush boom that made Queenstown a proper town from the miners' camp it had been two years earlier.
TSS Earnslaw Steamship
Queenstown, New Zealand
The TSS Earnslaw is the oldest coal-fired passenger steamship still operating in the Southern Hemisphere — a 51-metre twin-screw steamer that has crossed Lake Wakatipu since 1912 and is known as 'The Lady of the Lake.
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