Lake Benmore
Lake Benmore is New Zealand's largest artificial lake. Located in the South Island of New Zealand and part of the Waitaki River, it was created in the 1960s by construction of Benmore Dam.
Photo: Detonate, Public domain.- Type: Lake
- Description: reservoir in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Te Ao Marama”, “Водосховище Бенмор”, and “ბენმორეს ტბა”
Lake Benmore
- Categories: reservoir and body of water
- Location: Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-44.39835° or 44° 23′ 54″ south
Longitude
170.22009° or 170° 13′ 12″ east
Elevation
362 metres (1,188 feet)
Open location code
4V7GJ62C+M2
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Lake Benmore” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Llac Benmore”
- Chinese: “本莫尔湖”
- Chinese: “本莫爾湖”
- Dutch: “Lake Benmore”
- French: “lac Benmore”
- French: “Lac Benmore”
- Georgian: “ბენმორე”
- German: “Lake Benmore”
- Italian: “lago Benmore”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benmore-sjøen”
- Polish: “Lake Benmore”
- Russian: “Бенмор”
- Spanish: “Lago Benmore”
- Ukrainian: “Бенмор”
- Welsh: “Llyn Benmore”
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