Queenstown: A copper-mining town of Western Tasmania

Urban geography is concerned with the origin of a town or city in relation to its site, its development, its functional organisation, and its relationship with the surrounding territority. However, few studies in this field have been concerned with towns comparable in size with Queenstown. One reason for such an omission is that towns of five thousand or so inhabitants apparently have insufficient land-use differentiation to warrant a close analysis. But such an assumption is not necessarily true of all towns.