Queenstown Mall
Car-free lakeside shopping street of cafes, bars and boutiques running down to a gold-rush hotel.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Queenstown Mall in Queenstown goes back to around 1860, when two explorers came over the mountains to Lake Wakatipu and both wanted the same shore. It follows William Gilbert Rees, Nicholas von Tunzelmann and a legend about how chance, not surveyors, drew the first line on this land. Along the way you'll meet a woolshed, a gold rush and a hotel keeper whose name still hangs at the lake end of the street. Best heard walking slowly down the Mall towards the water.
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