TSS Earnslaw

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QUEENSTOWN, NZ - JAN 16 2014:TSS EarnslawIt's steamship one of the oldest tourist attractions in Otago and the only remaining commercial passenger coal-fired steamship in the southern hemisphere. License Type: media Download Time: 2023-04-21T10:36:32.000Z User: Is Editorial: Yes purchase_order:

The stately, steam-powered TSS Earnslaw was built in the same year as the Titanic (1912) but has fared somewhat better. The ship was once the lake’s major means of transport, though now its ever-present cloud of black soot (it burns a tonne of coal an hour) seems a little incongruous in such a pristine setting.

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