page_title: Frankton, Otago
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Frankton, Otago / Features
caption_attribution_description: English: Part of the lower level of the Remarkables Park Town Centre, Frankton, New Zealand. February 2013.
context_page_description: Frankton is a suburb of the town of Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand, formerly a separate settlement.
context_section_description: Queenstown Airport is located at Frankton. The airport provides direct international flights to Australia, and domestic flights around New Zealand.
  Remarkables Park Town Centre, a medium-large sized shopping centre in Frankton, serves as the principal shopping area for Queenstown residents.
  The Queenstown Events Centre is also located in Frankton and contains the main recreational and sporting facilities for Queenstown residents. Facilities at the Queenstown Events Centre include Alpine Aqualand (swimming pools and hydro slide), sports fields for football and cricket, cricket nets, indoor courts and events facilities.
  This historic Kawerau Falls Bridge was built between 22 December 1924 and August 1926.  It was constructed as a dam to lower the water level in the Kawarau River to enable the river bed to be mined. This idea may have been first suggested by Julius Vogel eighth Premier of New Zealand and Otago goldfields journalist in his 1889 book Anno Domini 2000 – A Woman's Destiny. The dam gates were shut from 15 June to 15 August. This caused the water to back up from behind the bridge to the Shotover River confluence. Less gold was found than expected and the project was largely unsuccessful. In May 1932, during the Depression, the gates were shut again for six weeks for unemployed men to fossick for gold.
caption: Remarkables Park Town Centre, Frankton
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