North Island
Bay of Plenty
Rotorua Lakes District

Frying Pan Lake

Frying Pan Lake is the world's largest hot spring. It is located in the Echo Crater of the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley, and its acidic water maintains a temperature of about 50 to 60 °C.
Tap on a place
to explore it
Wikipedia
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Lake
  • Description: hot spring in Bay of Plenty Region, New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Waimangu Cauldron”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Inferno Crater Lake and Southern Crater Lake.

Lake
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a large hot spring located in the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley on the North Island of , and the largest geyser-like feature in the world.

Lake
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waimangu and Te Wairoa.

Hamlet
is a place in , that got affected by the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. It is known for Volcanic Rift Valley. is a thirty minutes drive from .

Hamlet
Photo: JShook, CC BY 2.5.
was a village close to the shore of near , New Zealand. The village was buried by volcanic ash in the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera. is situated 9 km northwest of Frying Pan Lake.

Frying Pan Lake

Latitude
-38.28362° or 38° 17′ 1″ south
Longitude
176.39534° or 176° 23′ 43″ east
Elevation
378 metres (1,240 feet)
Open location code
4VHRP98W+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 213281928
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
6241344
Wiki­data ID
Q913465
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Frying Pan Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Frying Pan Lake” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحيرة المقلاة”
  • Aragonese: “Laco d’a Sartaina”
  • Chinese: “煎锅湖”
  • Czech: “Frying Pan Lake”
  • Dutch: “Frying Pan Lake”
  • French: “Frying Pan Lake”
  • German: “Frying Pan Lake”
  • Hebrew: “אגם מחבת הטיגון”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Frying Pan”
  • Indonesian: “Frying Pan Lake”
  • Italian: “lago Frying Pan”
  • Italian: “Lago Frying Pan”
  • Italian: “Waimangu Cauldron”
  • Japanese: “フライング・パン湖”
  • Polish: “Frying Pan”
  • Slovenian: “Frying Pan Lake”
  • Slovenian: “Frying Pan”
  • Slovenian: “jezero Frying Pan”
  • Slovenian: “Waimangu Cauldron”
  • Slovenian: “Waimangujska kaldera”
  • Swedish: “Frying Pan Lake”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Frying Pan Lake”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Rotomahana and Waiotapu Village.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Echo Crater and Fairy Crater.

Bay of Plenty: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Tauranga, Rotorua, White Island, and Whakatane.

Curious Places to Discover

Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
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 “Frying Pan Lake”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.