Why are the Blue Lakes green?
Why are the Blue Lakes green? is in Canterbury, South Island. Why are the Blue Lakes green? is situated nearby to the waterfall Wakefield Falls, as well as near the mountain saddle Billiken Pass.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Wakefield.
Mount Wakefield
Peak
Photo: Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Wakefield is a mountain in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, South Island, New Zealand. It is 2,058 metres high. The Mountain is named after Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Mount Wakefield is situated 3½ km west of Why are the Blue Lakes green?.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Cook National Park and Aoraki / Mount Cook.
Mount Cook National Park
Photo: Petero9, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park is a national park dominated by New Zealand's two highest mountains, Aoraki / Mount Cook and Mount Tasman. Several other high peaks of the South Island's Southern Alps are nearby.
Aoraki / Mount Cook
Village
Photo: Pseudopanax, CC BY 3.0.
Mount Cook Village, officially Aoraki / Mount Cook, is located within New Zealand's Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park at the end of State Highway 80, only 15 kilometres south of the summit of the country's highest mountain, also called Aoraki / Mount Cook, in the Southern Alps. Aoraki / Mount Cook is situated 7 km southwest of Why are the Blue Lakes green?.
Why are the Blue Lakes green?
- Type: Sign
- Categories: information and tourism
- Location: Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.69638° or 43° 41′ 47″ southLongitude
170.16735° or 170° 10′ 3″ eastOpen location code
4V8G8538+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 4580611651OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=information
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