Lake Lochnagar / Ōtaka
Ōtaka (Lake Lochnagar), also known as Goat Lake, is an alpine lake at an altitude of 1083 m, situated in the Mt Aspiring National Park south/west of Lake Wanaka. The lake is surrounded by steep mountain terrain.
L46774
A small alpine lake on the West Coast. It is situated just below West Peak and East Peak, 4 km north-east of Makawhio River (Jacobs River).
Alpine Lake / Ata Puai
Ata Puai (Alpine Lake) is a lake in West Coast, south of Blanchards Creek. It is surrounded by native vegetation.
Lake Douglas
Lake Douglas is an alpine lake on the tree line, located on the West Coast. It is situated in the Mark Range just south of the Haast River.
Lake Eggeling
Lake Eggeling is a small alpine lake just above tree line on the West Coast with an elevation of 1045 m. It is situated in the Mark Range just south of the Haast River.
Lake Gault
Perched above the renowned Lake Matheson/Te Ara Kairaumati, Lake Gault is a lowland lake surrounded by native vegetation. It is also recently home to New Zealand’s rarest kiwi, the rowi.
Lake Greaney
Lake Greaney is an alpine lake at 1188 m altitude in the Haast Range on the West Coast.
Lake Haupiri
Lake Haupiri is a small lake located inland from Nelson Creek, north of Greymouth. It is a popular place for trout fishing and boating. Lake Haupiri has, on its southern side, a significant community, and substantial dairy farming. Lake Haupiri is a riverine lake. The main inflows to the lake are on the south and […]
Lake Hochstetter
Lake Hochstetter is part of a network of fluvio-glacial lakes. The lake and its catchment show a high degree of naturalness in terms of vegetation. The catchment area is relatively unmodified beech forest and this gives the lake its typical amber coloured waters. The lake is important for Paradise Shelduck and an endemic fish, the […]
Lake Ianthe
Lake Ianthe is a large body of open water mostly surrounded by hill slopes of indigenous podocarp forest, with a large flax swamp at its southern end. The lake supports a substantial diversity of wetland birds, including perhaps Westland’s largest population of Great Crested Grebe, an endangered species in New Zealand. The lake occupies the […]
Kangaroo Lake
Kangaroo Lake is part of a network of fluvio-glacial lakes. It is a Westland beech forest lake with a wide swampy margin which provides good feeding and breeding habitat for a variety of wetland birds. It is fed by eight surface streams, but there is no apparent surface outflow.
Lake Kaniere
Lake Kaniere is located on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. It lies 30 kilometres southeast of Hokitika, and drains into the Tasman Sea via the Kaniere and Hokitika rivers. At 22 km² it is second only to Lake Brunner in size among the West Coast’s lakes. A small hydroelectric station is located […]
Lake Emma / Kirihonuhonu
Kirihonuhonu (Lake Emma) lies between the upper reaches of the South Asburton and Rangitata rivers’, and has a maximum depth of 3 m. In summer months, the lake has been susceptible to high nutrient levels and algal biomass concentrations. However, nutrient levels and algal productivity have fallen in recent years. The lake is popular for […]
Lake Evelyn
Lake Eveyln lies due north of Lake Coleridge at an altitude of 590 m. It is a small and shallow, semi alpine lake, surrounded by low-productivity grasslands, with a maximum recorded depth of 3.6 m (source www.lawa.co.nz).
Te Roto o Wairewa / Lake Forsyth
Lake Wairewa (Lake Forsyth) is a large, shallow, coastal lake, situated on Banks Peninsula, covering 627 hectrares with a maximum depth of 4 m. The lake holds high cultural significance among local Maori and is regarded as Mahinga Kai resource. The lake is often to subject to toxic cyanobacteria blooms, supported by high rates of […]
