{"id":508970,"date":"2026-07-04T04:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/508970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T04:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:36:11","slug":"lake-wakatipu-death-person-drowns-in-kingston-wharf-queenstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/508970\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Wakatipu death: Person drowns in Kingston Wharf, Queenstown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>4 Jul, 2026 01:56 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after drowning in Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were notified around 10.20am that a person had been pulled from Kingston Wharf unresponsive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police confirmed they are in attendance near Kent St, Kingston, at the southern-most part of Lake Wakatipu, where the \u201csudden death\u201d occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSadly, the person has died at the scene,\u201d police said. \u201cThe death will be referred to the Coroner.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 4 Jul, 2026 01:56 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,634,6179,9944,109272,42,78,115527,13207,43,4056,20930,40,38,41,39,229444,13639],"class_list":["post-508970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-death","tag-died","tag-drowning","tag-drowns","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-kingston","tag-lake","tag-news","tag-person","tag-queenstown","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wakatipu","tag-wharf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}