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TSS Earnslaw is a coal-fired twin-screw steamship that has sailed Lake Wakatipu since 1912. Built in Dunedin and reassembled at Kingston, she carries passengers from Steamer Wharf in Queenstown across the lake to Walter Peak High Country Farm; on board, visitors can watch the stokers and the steam engines below deck.
Skyline Queenstown is the gondola and hilltop complex on Bob's Peak, above central Queenstown. The gondola opened in 1967 and received new cabins in 2023; it climbs to a terrace about 450 metres above Lake Wakatipu, with views to the Remarkables, a restaurant and two luge tracks.
Kiwi Park is a family-run wildlife sanctuary at the foot of the Skyline Gondola in Queenstown, created from 1984 on a former rubbish tip by Dick and Noeleen Wilson. Paths lead through native bush past aviaries and enclosures with more than 20 native species such as kiwi and kea, and kiwi encounters and a conservation show run several times a day.
Queenstown Gardens is a botanical garden on the small peninsula between Queenstown Bay and the Frankton Arm of Lake Wakatipu. Planting began in 1866 and 1867; paths lead past tall Douglas firs, a rose garden, ponds with a stone arch bridge, the 1913 Scott Memorial and a disc golf course, with views of the lake and mountains.
Lake Wakatipu, Whakatipu Waimāori in Māori, is an 80-kilometre lake in the shape of a dog leg, with Queenstown on its northern shore. It is New Zealand's longest lake and up to 420 metres deep; the Remarkables rise along its south-eastern side, and a regular seiche makes the water in Queenstown Bay rise and fall by about 20 centimetres.
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