Blue Lake
Rotomairewhenua / Blue Lake is a small lake in Nelson Lakes National Park, in the northern reaches of New Zealand's Southern Alps. Sacred to local Māori, it has the clearest natural fresh water in the world.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mergy, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Body of water
- Description: small lake in Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Rotomairewhenua” and “Rotomairewhenua / Blue Lake”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Franklin and Lake Constance.
Mount Franklin
Peak
Mount Franklin is a peak in the Nelson Lakes National Park in the Tasman Region of New Zealand. It is the northernmost – and highest – of New Zealand's four Mounts Franklin, located 15 kilometres south of Lake Rotoroa. Mount Franklin is situated 2½ km east of Blue Lake.
Lake Constance
Photo: Buendisch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rotopōhueroa / Lake Constance is an alpine lake in the South Island of New Zealand. It lies within the borders of the Nelson Lakes National Park. The lake is drained via an underground river into the nearby Blue Lake.
Blue Lake
- Category: lake
- Location: Tasman District, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-42.05934° or 42° 3′ 34″ southLongitude
172.65764° or 172° 39′ 28″ eastElevation
1,195 metres (3,921 feet)Open location code
4V9JWMR5+73OpenStreetMap ID
way 178278159OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Maori—“Blue Lake” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “藍湖”
- German: “Blue Lake”
- German: “Rotomairewhenua/Blue Lake”
- Indonesian: “Danau Biru (Tasman)”
- Indonesian: “Danau Biru”
- Irish: “Rotomairewhenua”
- Japanese: “ブルー湖 (タスマン地方)”
- Maori: “Blue Lake”
- Maori: “Rotomairewhenua”
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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 “Blue Lake”. Photo: Mergy, CC BY-SA 2.5.