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Lake Mason

Depth: 39 metres

Area: 53 hectares

Altitude: 672 metres

Lake ID: 39297

Main vegetation type:
Indigenous Forest/Tussock

Lake Sumner Forest Park

Canterbury
42° 44' 2" S
172° 10' 5" E
Highland

Iwi / representative groups:

  • Ngāi Tahu
    • Te Ngāi Tūāhuriri Rūnanga
    • Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura

Description

Lake Mason is situated southwest of Loch Katrine in the Lake Sumner Conservation park. The lake is split in two independent lakes; a deep lake (39 m Lake Mason) and a much shallower second lake (2 m Little Lake Mason). They drain into each other. Lake Mason’s catchment is dominated by mountain beech forest and tussock grasslands, although it also has grazing land and 4WD access to a significant accommodation hut on the lake shore (www.ecan.govt.nz).

Main image by David G. Schmale III, Virginia Tech, https://www.schmalelab.spes.vt.edu/

Image – David G. Schmale III, Virginia Tech, https://www.schmalelab.spes.vt.edu/
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