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Victoria Nyanza. The black line indicates Stanley's route. Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes.With a surface area of approximately 59,947 km 2 (23,146 sq mi), [6] [7] Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, [8] and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. [9]
Main article: Lakes of New Zealand. Lake Taupō, New Zealand's largest lake. Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown. Lake Tekapo. Lake Rotorua from above Rotorua. Lake Hauroko, New Zealand's deepest lake. Ōkārito Lagoon. This is a list of lakes in New Zealand. A lake's location is identified by the region and either the territorial authority or ...
Nelson Lakes National Park is in the South Island of New Zealand, at the northern end of the Southern Alps. It was created in 1956 (one of four created in the 1950s). [1][2] The park contains beech forests, multiple lakes, snow-covered mountains and valleys created by glaciers during the ice ages. [3]
2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) Surface elevation. 2 m (6 ft 7 in) Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora is a broad, shallow coastal lake or waituna, in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand. [1] It is directly to the west of Banks Peninsula, separated from the Pacific Ocean by the long, narrow, sandy Kaitorete Spit, or more correctly Kaitorete ...
4,083,744 km 2 (1,576,742 sq mi) New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, near the centre of the water hemisphere. It consists of a large number of islands, estimated around 700, mainly remnants of a larger landmass now beneath the sea. The land masses by size are the South Island (or Te ...
2,200/km 2 (5,800/sq mi) The North Shore (Māori: Te Whenua Roa ō Kahu or Māori: Te Raki Paewhenua) is one of the major geographical regions of Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand. The area is defined as the northern shores of the Waitematā Harbour as far north as the Ōkura River. The North Shore is primarily uplifted Waitemata Group ...
Lake Rotoiti is a lake in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand. [3] It is the northwesternmost in a chain of lakes formed within the Okataina Caldera. The lake is close to the northern shore of its more famous neighbour, Lake Rotorua, and is connected to it via the Ohau Channel. It drains to the Kaituna River, which flows into the Bay of ...
It is in the southwest corner of the Otago region, near its boundary with Southland. Lake Wakatipu comes from the original Māori name Whakatipu wai-māori. [1] With a length of 80 kilometres (50 mi), it is New Zealand's longest lake, and, at 289 km 2 (112 sq mi), its third largest. The lake is also very deep, its floor being below sea level ...