Editing Queenstown, New Zealand (section)

== Toponymy ==
''Tāhuna'', the [[Māori-language|''te reo'']] name for Queenstown, means 'shallow bay'.<ref name="Spiritual bond to first people" />

There are various [[Apocrypha (fiction)|apocryphal]] accounts of how Queenstown gained its name, of which the following appears to be the most likely:
{{Blockquote|text=When William Rees first arrived in the area and built his homestead, the area was known as The Station although miners soon referred to it as The Camp from 1860 to 1862. The miners, and especially the Irish, had taken an interest in the ceremony held for a town called [[Cobh]] in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] (then part of the United Kingdom) which was renamed Queenstown in honour of [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] in 1850.<ref>{{cite web |title=Queenstown |url=http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/keyword/queenstown |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911103236/http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/keyword/queenstown |archive-date=11 September 2015 |access-date=25 August 2015 |publisher=New Zealand History}}</ref>}}

There was then a public meeting to name the ''township on the lake'' in January 1863 (probably the weekend of the 3rd and 4th) in which the town was officially given the name of ''Queenstown'' in reference to [[Cobh|Ireland's Queenstown]]. By 9–10 January 1863, the town was being reported with the name of Queenstown in several reports written by a correspondent in the ''Otago Witness'' on 5 and 6 January.<ref>{{cite web |date=5 January 1863 |title=The Dunstan |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW18630109.2.30 |access-date=24 August 2015 |work=[[Otago Witness]] |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930185037/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW18630109.2.30 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=6 January 1863 |title=The Dunstan |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18630110.2.17&srpos=8&e=01-01-1863-31-01-1863--10-ODT-1----0township+on+lake-- |access-date=24 August 2015 |work=[[Otago Witness]] |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930185324/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18630110.2.17&srpos=8&e=01-01-1863-31-01-1863--10-ODT-1----0township+on+lake-- |url-status=live }}</ref>