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Treble Cone is a 35-minute drive from Wānaka or a 90-minute drive from Queenstown. During the winter, various options are available, including door to door shuttles from both, Queenstown and Wānaka [ 10 ] as well as flights from Queenstown.
State Highway 6 (SH 6) is a major New Zealand state highway.It extends from the Marlborough region in the northeastern corner of the South Island across the top of the island, then down the length of the island, initially along the West Coast and then across the Southern Alps through inland Otago and finally across the Southland Plains to the island's south coast.
The town was renamed "Pembroke" within a month of the surveyor returning his books to Dunedin. It reverted to "Wanaka" on 1 September 1940, to reduce confusion between the names of the town and the lake. [21] The official name of the lake was updated from "Lake Wanaka" to "Lake Wānaka" in 2019, [2] and the town's name to "Wānaka" in 2021. [22]
The current town was founded as Pembroke during the gold rush of the 19th century, and renamed to Wanaka in 1940. [3] Along with the rest of the Queenstown-Lakes District , Wānaka is growing rapidly, with the population increasing by 50% between 2005 and 2015.
Queenstown (Māori: Tāhuna) [3] is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island.It is the seat and largest town in the Queenstown-Lakes District.. The town located on the northwestern edge of Lake Wakatipu, a long, thin, Z-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has views of nearby mountains such as The Remarkables, Cecil Peak, Walter Peak and just above the ...
Luggate is a small town in the South Island of New Zealand. [3] It is located on State Highway 6 between Wānaka and Cromwell, near the junction with State Highway 8A, approximately 15 km from the Wānaka township, just past Wānaka Airport.
At the time the new road to Skippers Point was completed, plans for a new higher bridge were made. Work on this new bridge began in 1898 [5] and lasted for about 2 years. [4] In March 1901, the bridge was officially opened by the Minister of Mines [5] and finally replaced the old one. The stone approaches of the old bridge still stand and are ...
The Routeburn Track is a 32 km tramping (hiking) track found in the South Island of New Zealand. [2] The track can be done in either direction, starting on the Queenstown side of the Southern Alps, at the northern end of Lake Wakatipu or on the Te Anau side, at the Divide, several kilometres from the Homer Tunnel to Milford Sound.