TSS Earnslaw

TSS Earnslaw & Walter Peak Station

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April 6th 2008
TSS EARNSLAW & WALTER PEAK SHEEP STATION TSS Earnslaw is a vintage Steamship, she was built in 1912 to service the remote farming communities around Lake Wakatipu including Walter Peak Station. She was built in Dunedin, 280 kms away then dismantled and railed to Kingston at the southern end of the lake. The NZ Railways was responsible for her operation 66 years and primarily ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more