🌊 Lake Waitaki

New Zealand · Oceania · 44.67°S, 170.40°E

Lake Waitaki is the smallest, oldest and most downstream of the three man-made lakes on the Waitaki River, and forms part of the Waitaki hydroelectric scheme in New Zealand's South Island. It lies downstream of lakes Aviemore and Benmore on the Waitaki River, close to the town of Kurow. It is part of the traditional boundary of the Canterbury and Otago regions (although the official border has been moved southward to include the entire lake, as well as the entire northwest portion of the Waitaki District within the Canterbury Region.

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Quick facts

Country	New Zealand
Continent / region	Oceania
Surface elevation	unknown
Coordinates (approx.)	44.67°S, 170.40°E · view on map

Lake Waitaki in New Zealand, in Oceania. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Surface elevation from Wikidata. Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.