Tasman Lake
Tasman Lake is a proglacial lake formed by the recent retreat of the Tasman Glacier in New Zealand's South Island. In the early 1970s, there were several small meltwater ponds on the Tasman Glacier.Photo: Avenue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: glacial lake of Tasman Glacier, Canterbury region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Tasman Glacier Lake”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Cook National Park and Aoraki / Mount Cook.
Mount Cook National Park
Photo: Petero9, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park is a national park dominated by New Zealand's two highest mountains, Aoraki / Mount Cook and Mount Tasman. Several other high peaks of the South Island's Southern Alps are nearby.
Aoraki / Mount Cook
Village
Photo: Pseudopanax, CC BY 3.0.
Mount Cook Village, officially Aoraki / Mount Cook, is located within New Zealand's Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park at the end of State Highway 80, only 15 kilometres south of the summit of the country's highest mountain, also called Aoraki / Mount Cook, in the Southern Alps. Aoraki / Mount Cook is situated 8 km southwest of Tasman Lake.
Tasman Lake
- Categories: glacial lake and body of water
- Location: Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Tasman Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bhojpuri to Russian—“Tasman Lake” goes by many names.
- Bhojpuri: “तस्मान झील”
- Catalan: “Llac Tasman”
- Chinese: “塔斯曼湖”
- Dutch: “Tasmanmeer”
- Georgian: “ტასმანის ტბა”
- German: “Tasman Lake”
- Indonesian: “Danau Tasman”
- Italian: “Lago Tasman”
- Japanese: “タスマン湖”
- Korean: “태즈먼 빙하 호수”
- Polish: “Jezioro Tasmana”
- Russian: “Тасман”
- “तस्मान झील”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Aoraki/Mount Cook and Birch Hill.
Notable Places Nearby
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