CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Queenstown it runs 397 km to Queenstown; allow about 5 h 15 of riding. It goes by way of Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand and back through Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The town sits on the shore of Lake Wakatipu, a long, dark, glacier-carved lake shaped like a lightning bolt, with the Remarkables mountain range rising straight from the far side in a wall of grey rock and snow. A Māori legend says the lake is the burnt outline of a giant, Matau, whose heart still beats under the water, and the lake level does rise and fall in a slow rhythm, a seiche caused by wind and pressure, which is the scientific explanation for the legend. The old coal-fired steamship TSS Earnslaw, launched in 1912, still crosses the lake to a high-country farm.
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Queenstown is where the day begins. Next is Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand.
South-west New Zealand is the wettest, wildest quarter of the country, and Te Wahipounamu, which in Māori means the place of greenstone, is its official name. The World Heritage area stretches over about two and a half million hectares and takes in four national parks: Fiordland, Mount Aspiring, Aoraki Mount Cook and Westland Tai Poutini.
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Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand comes up 71 km in.
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142 km in you reach Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand. Next is back through Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand.
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back through Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand, late in the day. Next is Queenstown.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Queenstown write-up.
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Back at Queenstown. That is the ride.
Queenstown → Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand is 142 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand → Queenstown is 142 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.