Queenstown

English

Etymology

From queen's + town, after various monarchs and consorts of the British Empire. Doublet of Quainton and Queenston. Cf. Queensville, Kingstown, Kingston, Kingstone, Coniston, Princetown, Princes Town, and Princeton. Cobh was one of many places in Ireland that changed their names in the 1920s following the Irish Revolution.

Proper noun

Queenstown

  1. A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
  2. A town in West Coast council area, Tasmania, Australia.
    • 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chatto & Windus (2014), page 221:
      His name came not from his looks, but from his childhood growing up in Queenstown—a remote copper mining town on the Tasmanian west coast, a land made in equal parts of rainforest and myth—where for a time his family had been so poor that they had only been able to afford sheepheads for food.
  3. A hamlet in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.
  4. A village in the Pomeroon-Supenaam region, Guyana.
  5. A resort town in Otago, New Zealand, situated on Lake Wakatipu, named after Queenstown in Ireland (now Cobh). [1]
  6. A neighbourhood of Singapore.
  7. A town and city in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
  8. A small town in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
  9. An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Virginia.
  10. An unincorporated community in the town of Westboro, Taylor County, Wisconsin.
  11. A suburb of Blackpool, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3237). [2]
  12. (historical) Former name of Cobh, a port town in County Cork in southern Ireland.
  13. (historical) Former name of Queenston, a rural community near Niagara Falls, Ontario, in Canada.

References

  1. ^ NZ Topo Map
  2. ^ List of United Kingdom locations: Q on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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