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| Mightier than a Steamboat |
Original Painting by Stanley Port
Acrylic on canvas 40 x 80 cm |
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This is a view of lakeland in the South Island of New Zealand. Mount Turnbull towers over Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown. The steamboat is the coal-fired
twin-screw TSS Earnslaw, the last of four steamers that once plied these waters. Built in Dunedin in 1912, this 51-metre ship was brought to Lake Wakatipu
in sections and re-assembled. Nowadays, it takes thousands of tourists for a cruise on this beautiful mountain-encircled lake.
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