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.

[3] Following the Otago gold rush in the 1860s, Kingston played an important role in the transport system throughout the district.

The busy shipping town hosted ten hotels, two banks and several stores, and it has been reported that there was as many as 5000 people camped in the area at its peak.

Before the 2023 census, Kingston settlement had a larger boundary, covering 2.78 km2 (1.07 sq mi).

[7] The Kingston Flyer historic railway service is closely associated with the town.

It operated over a 14 kilometre long preserved section of the former Kingston Branch, which provided a rail link from the city of Invercargill to Kingston for over a century, opening in 1878 and closing in 1979 after a section of track between Garston and Athol was washed out in a storm.