Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge

Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge

Coordinates	45°00′32″S 168°53′56″E / 45.009°S 168.899°E / -45.009; 168.899
Crosses	Kawarau River
Locale	Otago
Heritage status	Category I historic place
Location

The Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge spans the Kawarau River in the Otago region in the South Island of New Zealand. The bridge is mainly used for commercial purposes by the AJ Hackett Bungy Company for bungy jumping - the world's first commercial bungy jumping site. The bridge carries walkers, runners and bikers on the Queenstown Trail over the river.

Location

The bridge is in a Department of Conservation reserve,^[1] between the start of the Crown Range Road and Gibbston in the Kawarau Gorge within the Wakatipu Basin. It is 43 metres (141 ft) above the Kawarau River.

History

The bridge was designed by Harry Higginson.^[2] The bridge was completed in late 1880 as a key access route to the Central Otago goldfields. Traffic was moved to a new highway bridge on State Highway 6 in 1963.

The suspension bridge is classified by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category I historic place.^[3] Today, it is a tourist attraction with commercialised ziplines and bungee jumping.^[4]

Name

The bridge's many names include the Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge, Kawarau Suspension Bridge, Kawarau bridge, Kawarau Bungy Bridge. The Civil Aviation Authority refers to the bridge as Bungy Bridge, where it is used as a reporting point for general aviation aircraft approaching Queenstown Airport.^[5]

Gallery

View of the old suspension bridge above the Kawarau River
The old Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge
Bungee jumping from the old Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge.

^ "Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge". Engineering New Zealand. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
^ "Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge". www.heritage.org.nz. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
^ Astwood, Karen (29 March 2011). "IPENZ Engineering Heritage Register Report - Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge" (PDF). Engineering New Zealand. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
^ Babirat, Claudia (2 August 2021). "Tohu Whenua: Visiting Otago's treasured heritage landmarks". Stuff. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
^ "In, Out and Around Queenstown" (PDF). Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand. May 2017. p. 16.

Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago, New Zealand

Seat: Queenstown

Populated places

Arrowtown Ward

Arrowtown

Queenstown-Wakatipu Ward

Queenstown	Arthurs Point Fernhill Frankton Goldfield Heights Hanley's Farm Kelvin Heights Marina Heights Queenstown Central Queenstown East Queenstown Hill Sunshine Bay

Wānaka Ward

Geographic features

Facilities and attractions

Government

Organisations

Sports

Places associated with Tolkien tourism

Film locations
(New Zealand)

North Island

Waikato	Hobbiton Movie Set The Shire Mount Ngauruhoe Mount Doom
Manawatū-Whanganui	Mangawhero River Ithilien Mount Ruapehu Gates of Mordor Rangipo Desert Gates of Mordor Rangitīkei River River Anduin Tongariro National Park Emyn Muil Whakapapa skifield Mordor
Wellington	Kaitoke Regional Park Rivendell and the Fords of Isen Mount Victoria Escaping the Shire and Dunharrow Pūtangirua Pinnacles Dimholt Road Wētā Workshop

South Island

Nelson	Mount Olympus, Kahurangi National Park Outcrop south of Rivendell Tākaka Hill Chetwood
Tasman	Mount Owen Dimrill Dale
Canterbury	Mount Sunday, Mount Potts station Edoras Twizel Pelennor Fields
Otago	Dart River / Te Awa Whakatipu Isengard, Lothlórien and Amon Hen Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge The Argonath Mount Aspiring National Park Isengard Skippers Canyon Ford of Bruinen The Remarkables Misty Mountains Twelve Mile Delta, Queenstown Ithilien camp
Westland	Mount Gunn, Franz Josef Glacier Ered Nimrais
Southland	Kepler Mire Dead Marshes Mavora Lakes Nen Hithoel, Fangorn, Silverlode River and River Anduin Snowdon Forest Fangorn Waiau River River Anduin

Locations
associated
with Tolkien

United Kingdom

Oxford	The Eagle and Child Exeter College Merton College Pembroke College Northmoor Road Wolvercote Cemetery
Birmingham	Birmingham Oratory Sarehole Mill
Worcestershire	Malvern Hills

Switzerland

See also: Tolkien Societies; J. R. R. Tolkien

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