Millbrook Resort is a

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near Queenstown,

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. It is located 4 kilometres to the west of the historic

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town of

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. The resort covers 650 acres of the Wakatipu Basin - a glacial valley bordered by the

Crown Range The Crown Range is a mountain range that lies to the east of the Wakatipu Basin in Otago, New Zealand. It is noted for two features, the Cardrona Alpine Resort, on the slopes of the 1900 metre Mount Cardrona, and a highway, known as the Crow ...

the Remarkables The Remarkables ( mi, Kawarau) are a mountain range and skifield in Otago in the South Island of New Zealand. Located on the southeastern shore of Lake Wakatipu, the range lives up to its name by rising sharply to create a remarkable backdrop ...

and

Lake Wakatipu Lake Wakatipu ( mi, Whakatipu Waimāori) is an inland lake (finger lake) in the South Island of New Zealand. It is in the southwest corner of the Otago region, near its boundary with Southland. ''Lake Wakatipu'' comes from the original Māori nam ...

. The resort includes five restaurants, a bar/café, a

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and a 36 hole

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. Millbrook is privately owned by the Ishii family, though individual residences within the resort are owned by a diverse group of investors, largely from New Zealand but also from Australia and around the world.

Millbrook Declaration

In 1995, Millbrook was the venue for a top-level meeting of

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, meeting to design a policy programme of the

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, designed to ratify the basic political membership criteria of the Commonwealth. The programme was agreed and announced on 12 November 1995.

Demographics

Millbrook is described by Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement. It covers . It is part of the Wakatipu Basin statistical area. Millbrook had a population of 123 at the

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, an increase of 36 people (41.4%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 39 people (46.4%) since the

2006 census 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

. There were 57 households. There were 63 males and 63 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.0 males per female, with 12 people (9.8%) aged under 15 years, 9 (7.3%) aged 15 to 29, 57 (46.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 45 (36.6%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 97.6% European/Pākehā, 4.9% Māori, 2.4% Pacific peoples, and 2.4% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities). Although some people objected to giving their religion, 53.7% had no religion, and 46.3% were Christian. Of those at least 15 years old, 45 (40.5%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 6 (5.4%) people had no formal qualifications. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 39 (35.1%) people were employed full-time, and 21 (18.9%) were part-time.

References

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