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Lake Alabaster

Lake Alabaster / Wāwāhi Waka, also known by the Māori name of Waiwahuika, lies at the northern end of Fiordland, in the southwest of New Zealand's .
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in New Zealand’s South Island
  • Also known as: “Lake Alabaster / Wāwāhi Waka”, “Lake Alabaster/Wawahi Waka”, “Lake Alabaster/Wāwāhi Waka”, “Waiwahuika”, “Waiwuhiwaku”, and “Wāwāhi Waka”

Lake Alabaster

Latitude
-44.52367° or 44° 31′ 25″ south
Longitude
168.15545° or 168° 9′ 20″ east
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
Named after
Wāwāhi Waka (Pigeon Island/Wāwāhi Waka)
Open location code
4V7CF5G4+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 8109061
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
2194051
Wiki­data ID
Q6474697
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Satellite Map

Discover Lake Alabaster from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Lake Alabaster” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Lake Alabaster/Wawahi Waka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره الاباستير/واواهى واكا”
  • Esperanto: “Alabastra Lago”
  • German: “Lake Alabaster”
  • German: “Lake Alabaster/Wāwāhi Waka”
  • German: “Waiwahuika”
  • German: “Wāwāhi Waka”
  • Irish: “Wāwāhi Waka”
  • Low German: “Lake Alabaster”
  • Low German: “Waiwahuika”
  • Low German: “Wāwāhi Waka”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Lake Alabaster”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Waiwahuika”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Wāwāhi Waka”
  • Maori: “Waiwahuika”
  • Maori: “Wāwāhi Waka”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Alabaster”

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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 Alabaster”. Photo: Sarang, Public domain.