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Kingston is a small town at the southernmost end of Lake Wakatipu, just north of the border of Otago and Southland, in New Zealand's South Island. It is 47 kilometres south of Queenstown by a road, "The Devil's Staircase" , which winds between the lake to the west and The Remarkables mountains to the east.
Kingston (New Zealand band), a New Zealand pop/rock band; Kingston (duo), formerly Carter Twins, an American musical duo; Kingston Maguire, known as Kingston, of hip hop duo Blue Sky Black Death; The Kingston Trio, an American folk and pop music group "Kingston", a song by Sean Kingston from his 2007 debut self-titled album "Kingston", a song ...
A lot of streets in Kingston have names associated with Canada, such as Vancouver Street and Caribou Place. Between 2017 and 2021 the median house sale price in Kingston increased from $772,000 to $1,080,000. [8] As of 2021, the Kingston shops consist of a dairy, a fish and chip shop and a mechanic. The nearest post office is NZ Post Centre ...
Kingston City Hall may refer to: Kingston City Hall (New York) , the city hall in Kingston, New York, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places Kingston City Hall (Ontario) , the city hall in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and a National Historic Site of Canada
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New Zealand is a predominantly urban country, with 84.3% of the population living in urban areas, and 51.0% of the population living in the seven cities with populations exceeding 100,000. [311] Auckland, with over 1.4 million residents, is by far the largest city. [311] New Zealand cities generally rank highly on international livability measures.
Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865. New Zealand's first capital city was Old Russell in 1840–41. Auckland was the second capital from 1841 until 1865, when Parliament was permanently moved to Wellington after an argument that persisted for a decade.
Before British colonisation of New Zealand, the Indigenous architecture of Māori was an 'elaborate tradition of timber architecture'. [1] Māori constructed rectangular buildings (whare) with a 'small door, an extension of the roof and walls to form a porch, and an interior with hearths along the centre and sleeping places along the walls' for protection against the cold.