Lake Mapourika
Lake Mapourika is located on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It lies north of Franz Josef Glacier, and the out-flowing Ōkārito River drains it into the Ōkārito Lagoon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wombat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Lake Mapourika / Māpouriki”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include The Forks and Westland Tai Poutini National Park.
The Forks
Hamlet
Ōkārito Lagoon is a coastal lagoon on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It is located 130 kilometres south of Hokitika, and covers an area of about 3,240 hectares, making it the largest unmodified coastal wetland in New Zealand. The Forks is situated 7 km north of Lake Mapourika.
Westland Tai Poutini National Park
Westland Tai Poutini National Park is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as Te Wahipounamu in South West New Zealand. The national park lies on the West Coast of the South Island in the Southern Alps, adjacent to Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park and to the north of Mount Aspiring National Park.
Franz Josef
Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Franz Josef is a village and glacial area at the foot of the western slopes of Mount Cook, in the middle of the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
Lake Mapourika
- Category: body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.31283° or 43° 18′ 46″ southLongitude
170.20033° or 170° 12′ 1″ eastElevation
83 metres (272 feet)Open location code
4V8GM6P2+V4OpenStreetMap ID
way 381213440OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
2187366Wikidata ID
Q1898689
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Mapourika from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Lake Mapourika” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lake Mapourika”
- Chinese: “梅普里卡湖”
- Chuvash: “Мапурика”
- Dutch: “Mapourikameer”
- Esperanto: “Mapourika”
- French: “lac Mapourika”
- French: “Lac Mapourika”
- Galician: “Lago Mapourika”
- German: “Lake Mapourika”
- Indonesian: “Danau Mapourika”
- Irish: “Māpouriki”
- Italian: “Lago Mapourika”
- Maori: “Māpouriki”
- Novial: “Mapourika”
- Polish: “Mapourika”
- Portuguese: “Lago Mapourika”
- Russian: “Мапурика”
- Turkish: “Mapourika”
- Venetian: “lago Mapourika”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Mapourika”
- Welsh: “Llyn Mapourika”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Mapourika”. Photo: Wombat, CC BY-SA 3.0.