The district

Historic places of the district

Choose a place on the map and read what the Society has written about it, then follow the Queenstown Courier's index into sixty years of the magazine.

Every place

  • Queenstown

    The lakeside town at the centre of the Society's story, from Rees's station to the fight for the old stone library.

    5 stories · 82 index entries

  • Frankton

    The outlet end of the lake, where the steamers met the road and a gold company built a dam.

    4 stories · 21 index entries

  • Arrowtown

    The gold town on the Arrow: its Chinese settlement on Bush Creek, and eighteen names on its war memorial.

    3 stories · 47 index entries

  • Arthurs Point

    The Shotover crossing on the road from Queenstown to Skippers.

    0 stories · 2 index entries

  • Lake Hayes

    The small lake between Frankton and Arrowtown, and the farms and families around it.

    0 stories · 8 index entries

  • Gibbston

    The Kawarau valley below the Arrow junction, on the road out to Cromwell.

    0 stories · 6 index entries

  • Kawarau Falls

    The lake's outlet, dammed by a gold company in 1926; the dam found almost no gold and left the district a bridge.

    1 story · 14 index entries

  • Skippers

    The Shotover gorge township at the end of the Skippers Road, and the pack track beyond it.

    2 stories · 26 index entries

  • Macetown

    The quartz-mining township up the Arrow, reached by the Macetown Road.

    1 story · 17 index entries

  • Bullendale

    The Reefs, up the Right Branch of Skippers Creek, where a quartz battery ran on hydro-electricity from March 1886.

    1 story · 15 index entries

  • Glenorchy

    The head of the lake, where the steamers landed and the pounamu trails began.

    3 stories · 15 index entries

  • Kinloch

    The western landing at the head of the lake, where the Antrim was built at a sawmill.

    2 stories · 2 index entries

  • Kingston

    The southern end of the lake: the railhead, the steamers' terminus, and the road to Queenstown made with picks and wheelbarrows.

    3 stories · 9 index entries

Lake and river outlines from LINZ Topo50 data, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Places are placed by their New Zealand Gazetteer coordinates.