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Skyline gondola

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Skyline gondola

By the time it was temporarily shut down during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the Skyline gondola had carried more than 17 million passengers between Queenstown and its terminus on Bobs Peak since opening in 1967.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 7 June 2008, p. 25

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago places – Queenstown and Arrowtown, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22881/skyline-gondola (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 19 August 2009, updated 1 July 2015.