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Frankton

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Frankton

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Queenstown Hill

    Mountain in New Zealand

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lake Johnson

    Lake in New Zealand

    2 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Frankton

Airports
Queenstown (ZQN), 1 km
Stations
Queenstown Airport, 400 m
  • Christchurch → Frankton
    352 km · quickest by air, 3h 57m · NZ$140–210
  • Wellington → Frankton
    642 km · quickest by air, 5h 55m · NZ$160–250
  • Auckland → Frankton
    1040 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · NZ$240–360
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Frankton

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Frankton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inQueenstown Airport also provides for private jets and other aircraft, and there is a huge number of helicopter take-offs and landings each day.
  • Get inTaxis into town cost about $35-45 while Supershuttle shared vans will take you straight to your accommodation for $26 for one or two people (Mar 2019).
  • Get inNational sightseeing tour operator GreatSights New Zealand has daily tour options to Queenstown from Christchurch via Mt Cook and operates daily services to the West Coast including (Fox Glacier Franz Josef and Greymouth).
  • Get aroundThere are a number of tour operators to be found in the CBD of Queenstown.
  • Get aroundTransport from Queenstown's CBD to adventure activities is often part of the tour package.

From Wikivoyage: Queenstown (New Zealand), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    74 km
  2. 02
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,717 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,610 km
  4. 04
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,837 km
  5. 05
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    4,110 km

If you know how people move in Frankton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Frankton

  • Quail Risesuburb of Queenstown in Queenstown-Lakes District Council, New Zealand2.9 km
  • Shotover Countrysuburb of Queenstown, New Zealand3.4 km