Lake Tekapo

Lake Tekapo, lake in central South Island, New Zealand, occupying 37 square miles (96 square km) of a valley that has been dammed by a moraine (glacial debris). The lake is about 15 miles (24 km) long and 3.5 miles (6 km) wide and drains a 550-square-mile (1,425-square-kilometre) basin. The lake’s major affluents, east of the Southern Alps, are the Godley and Macaulay rivers. Near the resort town of Lake Tekapo at its southern tip,...