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Glenorchy

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

Photograph of a two-storey hotel with lace-trimmed verandahs beside a gabled cottage, a coach and horses, a saddled horse and a family on the tussock in front, mountains behind — Birley's Mount Earnslaw Hotel at Glenorchy in the 1890s. Lakes District Museum EL1220.

Stories

Story · Transport and Early Tourism
The Whakatipu steamers
The Antrim was built at a sawmill near Kinloch, the Ben Lomond was carted up from Dunedin in pieces, and the Mountaineer came to Kingston by rail in sections.
Story · Transport and Early Tourism
The first tourists
Anthony Trollope crossed the lake in 1872 and told his readers the district would be known for its scenery, and by 1883 every visitor was expected to climb Ben Lomond.
Story · Māori History & First Colonists
The iwi of Whakatipu
Three iwi over many centuries, the pounamu that brought them to the head of the lake, and the trails, kāinga and names they left across the whole basin.

In the Courier index

Magazine articles in Issue 97, Winter 2017

Glenorchy, p. 13 Lindsay Kennett: Paradise and Glenorchy sent forth a milliner, by Hilary Hunt

Magazine articles in Issue 86, 2011

Glenorchy Races, p. 32 Article: Glenorchy Races by Pat Paulin in Stories Behind 2012 Calendar Photos

Magazine articles in Issue 74, 2005

Glenorchy, p. 22 Stones Directory 1937: Arrowtown, Arthurs Point, Glenorchy

Magazine articles in Issue 66, 2001

Glenorchy, p. 19 Milling: Cutting Totara Posts was no Picnic. By Darrell McGregor.

Magazine articles in Issue 59, 1997

Glenorchy, p. 27 Scheelite: Miners in The Clouds; The History of a Book, by Julia Bradshaw

Magazine articles in Issue 58, 1997

Glenorchy, p. 11 The Road to Glenorchy, by Darrell McGregor.

Magazine articles in Issue 55, 1995

Glenorchy, p. 12 Joseph Cyprian Fenn
Glenorchy, p. 5 The Head of the Lake, by TJ Thompson. Continuation of the essay in Issue 54, page 4

Magazine articles in Issue 54, 1995

Glenorchy, p. 4 Scheelite: From a Milk Run in Leith Valley to Earnslaw Station.

Magazine articles in Issue 35, 1985

Glenorchy, p. 16 Alpine Club & Glenorchy Hotels 1886. F.H. Daniel & T.Wilson. Liquor licenses refused, prosecution for sly-grogging.
Glenorchy, p. 14 Scheelite Mining Glenorchy – July 1885

Magazine articles in Issue 11, 1973

Glenorchy, p. 5 Glenorchy Mining. Period of the 2nd World War,1940 -1945 by Jim E. Reid.
Glenorchy, p. 5 Scheelite: Glenorchy Mining - Period of the 2nd World War,1940 -1945 by Jim E. Reid.

Magazine articles in Issue 10, 1973

Glenorchy, p. 4 The Glenorchy Scheelite Field. Contributed by Jim Reid

Magazine articles in Issue 8, 1972

Glenorchy, p. 6 Maori: Fragments of Pre-European History at the Head of Lake Wakatipu by A.M. Miller

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