Lake Wānaka
Lake Wānaka is New Zealand's fourth-largest lake and the seat of the town of Wānaka in the Otago region. The lake is 300 meters above sea level, covers about 198 km2, and is more than 300 m deep.
Photo: Prufrock1, Public domain.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Otago Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Oanaka”
Lake Wānaka
- Category: body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-44.5° or 44° 30′ south
Longitude
169.13333° or 169° 8′ east
Elevation
282 metres (925 feet)
Open location code
4V7FG42M+28
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Welsh—“Lake Wānaka” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Laco Wanaka”
- Catalan: “Llac Wanaka”
- Chinese: “瓦納卡湖”
- Chinese: “瓦纳卡湖”
- Chuvash: “Уанака”
- Dutch: “Wanakameer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره واناكا”
- Estonian: “Wanaka järv”
- Finnish: “Lake Wanaka”
- Finnish: “Lake Wānaka”
- French: “lac Wanaka”
- French: “Lac Wanaka”
- Georgian: “უანაკა”
- German: “Lake Wanaka”
- German: “Lake Wānaka”
- Hebrew: “אגם ואנקה”
- Irish: “Wānaka”
- Italian: “Lago Wanaka”
- Japanese: “ワナカ湖”
- Korean: “와나카 호수”
- Lithuanian: “Vanaka”
- Macedonian: “Ванака”
- Malayalam: “വനാകാ തടാകം”
- Maori: “Wānaka”
- Persian: “دریاچه واناکا”
- Polish: “Wanaka”
- Russian: “Уанака”
- Spanish: “Lago Wānaka”
- Swedish: “Lake Wanaka”
- Turkish: “Wanaka Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Ванака”
- Venetian: “lago Wanaka”
- Welsh: “Llyn Wanaka”
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