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Lake Tekapo Airport is located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of the town where local tourism operator Air Safaris is based. Twizel lies 60 km (39 minutes drive) south of Lake Tekapo via Lake Pukaki and Burkes Pass lies 21 km (15 minutes drive) west along State Highway 8.
The lake is a popular tourist destination, and several resort hotels are located in the township of Lake Tekapo at the lake's southern end. The Lake Tekapo Regional Park, administered by Environment Canterbury, is located on the lake's southern shore. State Highway 8 runs past Lake Tekapo at its southern end. On a clear day, the taller snow ...
Lake Tekapo (town), small town (township) located at the southern end of the lake of the same name in the inland South Island of New Zealand. Lake Tekapo, the second-largest of three roughly parallel lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand
Looking across Temuka and the Canterbury Plains toward the Southern Alps. Lake Tekapo, with Aoraki / Mount Cook and the Southern Alps in the background. South Canterbury is the area of the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand bounded by the Rangitata River in the north and the Waitaki River (the border with the Otago Region) to the south.
The main settlements within the reserve are Mount Cook Village, Twizel, and Lake Tekapo (town). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The night sky brightness in the reserve ranks at a level 2 on the nine-level Bortle Dark-Sky Scale , representing a truly dark site with high astronomical observability of celestial objects .
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Sparsely populated, and with only four settlements (Lake Tekapo, population <500; Mount Cook Village, population <150; Twizel, population <1,000; and Omarama, population <400), the Mackenzie Country comprises an area of huge glacial lakes and snow-capped mountains, particularly favoured by tourists and skiers.
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