Lake Taupo
Lake Taupō is a large crater lake in New Zealand's North Island, located in the caldera of Taupō Volcano. The lake is the namesake of the town of Taupō, which sits on a bay in the lake's northeastern shore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: New Zealand’s largest lake
- Also known as: “Lake Taupō”, “Lake Taupō / Taupōmoana”, “Taupo Moana”, and “Taupo Moana Lake”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Motutere and Hatepe.
Motutere
Hamlet
Motutere is a small township on the southeastern shore of Lake Taupō in New Zealand's Waikato region. It lies on Motutere Bay, close to the popular diving location, Te Poporo / Bulli Point, and approximately halfway between Taupō and Tūrangi, to both of which it is connected by SH1. Motutere is situated 9 km southeast of Lake Taupo.
Hatepe
Village
Hatepe is a small community northeast of Tauranga Taupō and southwest of Waitahanui, on the southeastern side of New Zealand's Lake Taupō. State Highway 1 runs past it. Hatepe is situated 9 km southeast of Lake Taupo.
Lake Taupo
- Categories: volcanic crater lake and body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Taupo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Taupo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة تابو”
- Arabic: “بحيرة توبو”
- Armenian: “Թաուպո (լիճ)”
- Armenian: “Թաուպո”
- Azerbaijani: “Taupo”
- Balinese: “Danu Taupō”
- Basque: “Taupō (aintzira)”
- Basque: “Taupō”
- Belarusian: “Возера Таупа”
- Belarusian: “Таупа”
- Bulgarian: “Таупо”
- Catalan: “Llac Taupo”
- Chinese: “陶波湖”
- Chuvash: “Таупо”
- Croatian: “Taupo”
- Czech: “Jezero Taupo”
- Czech: “Taupo”
- Dutch: “Lake Taupo”
- Dutch: “Taupomeer”
- Esperanto: “Lago Taupo”
- Esperanto: “Taupo”
- Estonian: “Taupo järv”
- Finnish: “Taupojärvi”
- Finnish: “Taupōjärvi”
- French: “lac Taupo”
- French: “Lac Taupo”
- Galician: “Lago Taupo”
- Georgian: “ტაუპო”
- Georgian: “ტაუპოს ტბა”
- German: “Lake Taupō”
- German: “Tauposee”
- Greek: “Λίμνη Τάουπο”
- Hebrew: “אגם טאופו”
- Hindi: “ताऊपो झील”
- Hungarian: “Taupói-tó”
- Indonesian: “Danau Taupo”
- Indonesian: “Danau Taupō”
- Irish: “Loch Taupó”
- Italian: “lago Taupo”
- Italian: “Lago Taupo”
- Japanese: “タウポ湖”
- Korean: “타우포 호수”
- Korean: “타우포호”
- Latvian: “Taupo ezers”
- Latvian: “Taupo lake”
- Latvian: “Taupo-nui-a-Tia”
- Lithuanian: “Taupas”
- Lithuanian: “Taupo ežeras”
- Macedonian: “Таупо”
- Malayalam: “Lake Taupo”
- Malayalam: “തൗപോ തടാകം”
- Maori: “Taupōmoana”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Taupo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taupo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lake Taupo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tauposjøen”
- Norwegian: “Tauposjøen”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lake Taupo”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tawpomere”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Taƿpomere”
- Persian: “دریاچه تاپو”
- Polish: “Jezioro Taupo”
- Polish: “Taupo”
- Polish: “Taupō”
- Portuguese: “Lago Taupo”
- Quechua: “Lago Taupo”
- Quechua: “Lake Taupo”
- Quechua: “Taupo Qucha”
- Quechua: “Taupō-nui-a-Tia”
- Quechua: “Tawpu Qucha”
- Romanian: “Lacul Taupo”
- Russian: “озеро Таупо”
- Russian: “Таупо (озеро)”
- Russian: “Таупо”
- Serbian: “Taupo”
- Serbian: “Таупо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Taupo”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Taupo”
- Slovenian: “Taupō (jezero)”
- Slovenian: “Taupō”
- Spanish: “Lago Taupo”
- Swedish: “Lake Taupo”
- Swedish: “Taupo”
- Swedish: “Tauposjön”
- Turkish: “Taupo Gölü”
- Ukrainian: “Таупо”
- Urdu: “جھیل ٹاپو”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Taupo”
- Welsh: “Llyn Taupo”
- “Lake Taupō”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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