Fit for royalty: The New Zealand towns named after the Queen and co
Lorna Thornber17:12, Jun 05 2021 Brook Sabin Quirky sculptures, monster trucks, and supersized pizzas - here are our favourite offbeat Queenstown experiences. With the Queen to thank for this long weekend, we thought we’d take a look at the New Zealand towns named after Elizabeth II and her whānau. Given the huge number of places named after British military types, I was surprised to find there aren’t many. Queenstown, Kingston and Alexandra are the only three settlements in Aotearoa said to be named after royals, perhaps as a result of the anti-royalist attitudes of the long-defunct N...
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