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Lake Tennyson

Lake Tennyson is a glacial high-country lake in Canterbury, New Zealand. The first European settler to see the lake was Frederick Weld in 1853, who also named it.
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  • Type: Body of water
  • Description: lake in Hurunui District, New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Rangitahi” and “Rangitahi / Lake Tennyson”

Lake Tennyson

Latitude
-42.19904° or 42° 11′ 57″ south
Longitude
172.73072° or 172° 43′ 51″ east
Elevation
1,102 metres (3,615 feet)
Named after
Alfred Tennyson
Open location code
4V9JRP2J+97
Open­Street­Map ID
way 8108999
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Wiki­data ID
Q30224290
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Satellite Map

Discover Lake Tennyson from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From German to Welsh—“Lake Tennyson” goes by many names.
  • German: “Lake Tennyson”
  • Irish: “Rangitahi”
  • Maori: “Rangitahi”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Tennyson”

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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 “Lake Tennyson”. Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 4.0.