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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 township as seen from the nearby Mount John University Observatory. Lake Tekapo (often known simply as Tekapo (Māori: Takapō) to avoid confusion with the lake itself) is a small township located at the southern end of the lake of the same name in the inland South Island of New Zealand.
The Lake Tekapo Recreational Park Society was established in August 2008. [3] It provides support the council in developing the park and coordinate volunteer activities, with funding from local businesses and organisations. [1] [2] In 2011, the society proposed the development of an area in the park for a caravan park. [4]
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
The facility was expanded in 1970 with the addition of a 25.5 kilometres (15.8 mi) canal to take outflow water to Lake Pukaki and the Tekapo B Power Station. [1] Just to the east is the artificially-created Lake George Scott, which is part of the diversion of additional lakewater from the Tekapo River into the canal. Due to the diversion into ...
Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. A moraine-dammed lake, occurs when the terminal moraine has prevented some meltwater from leaving the valley. When a glacier retreats, there is a space left over between the retreating glacier and the piece that stayed intact which holds leftover debris . Meltwater from both glaciers seep into this space creating a ...
Lake Pukaki was initially dammed at this stage to provide storage and flow control. A small station was also installed on Lake Tekapo, but although it has a small dam to raise the pre-existing lake, water was taken through a 1.6 km (1 mi) tunnel to a powerstation below the level of the lake.
Lake George Scott, also called Scott Pond, [1] is a small lake situated on the Tekapo River approximately 3 kilometres downstream of Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. It is a man-made lake formed to divert water from the river into the Tekapo hydro electric canal. [2] The Lake is named after the late George Scott, a former superintendent of the nearby ...