Lake Tekapo

Lake Tekapo is a lakeside resort village in the in the South Island of . It gets its name from one of the in the .
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  • 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
The on the shores of on the of New Zealand is a small Anglican church used by various denominations.

Lake
, also called Scott Pond, is a small situated on the Tekapo River approximately 3 kilometres downstream of , .

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
University of Canterbury Mount John Observatory, previously known as Mt John University Observatory, is New Zealand's premier astronomical research .

Lake Tekapo

Latitude
-44.0045° or 44° 0′ 16″ south
Longitude
170.4777° or 170° 28′ 40″ east
Population
558
Elevation
710 metres (2,329 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NZ LAT
Open location code
4V7GXFWH+53
Open­Street­Map ID
node 166733708
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2188526
Wiki­data ID
Q5414035
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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.