Lake Tekapo
Lake Tekapo is a lakeside resort village in the Mackenzie Country in the South Island of New Zealand. It gets its name from one of the Southern Lakes in the Southern Alps.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Cuzza, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 558 residents
- Description: locality in Mackenzie District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Tekapo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of the Good Shepherd and Lake George Scott.
Church of the Good Shepherd
Church
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church of the Good Shepherd on the shores of Lake Tekapo on the South Island of New Zealand is a small Anglican church used by various denominations.
Lake George Scott
Lake
Lake George Scott, also called Scott Pond, is a small lake situated on the Tekapo River approximately 3 kilometres downstream of Lake Tekapo, New Zealand.
Mount John University Observatory
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
University of Canterbury Mount John Observatory, previously known as Mt John University Observatory, is New Zealand's premier astronomical research observatory.
Lake Tekapo
- Category: locality
- Location: Mackenzie District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-44.0045° or 44° 0′ 16″ southLongitude
170.4777° or 170° 28′ 40″ eastPopulation
558Elevation
710 metres (2,329 feet)United Nations Location Code
NZ LATOpen location code
4V7GXFWH+53OpenStreetMap ID
node 166733708OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Urdu—“Lake Tekapo” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Lake Tekapo”
- Catalan: “Lake Tekapo”
- Cebuano: “Lake Tekapo”
- Chinese: “特卡波鎮”
- Czech: “Lake Tekapo”
- Dutch: “Lake Tekapo”
- Esperanto: “Lake Tekapo”
- Esperanto: “Tekapo”
- German: “Lake Tekapo”
- Japanese: “レイク・テカポ”
- Macedonian: “Лејк Текапо”
- Maori: “Lake Tekapo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lake Tekapo”
- Spanish: “Lago Tekapo”
- Spanish: “Lake Tekapo”
- Turkish: “Lake Tekapo”
- Urdu: “لیک ٹیکاپو”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Lake Tekapo”. Photo: Cuzza, Public domain.