Lake Ohau

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Lake Ohau

Location	Mackenzie Basin, Waitaki District, Canterbury Region, South Island
Coordinates	44°15′S 169°51′E / 44.250°S 169.850°E / -44.250; 169.850Coordinates: 44°15′S 169°51′E / 44.250°S 169.850°E / -44.250; 169.850
Type	glacial lake
Primary inflows	Hopkins, Dobson
Primary outflows	Ohau
Catchment area	1,198 km² ^[1]
Basin countries	New Zealand

Surface area	54 km² ^[1]
Average depth	74 m ^[1]
Max. depth	129 m ^[1]
Water volume	4.02 km³ ^[1]
Surface elevation	520 m

References	^[1]

Location

Lake Ohau^[2] is a glacial lake in the Mackenzie Basin of New Zealand's South Island. It is fed by the Hopkins and Dobson rivers, which have their headwaters in the Southern Alps, and has its outflow in the Ohau River, which itself feeds into the Waitaki River hydroelectric project.

Ohau is the smallest of three roughly parallel lakes running north-south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin (the others are Lake Pukaki and Lake Tekapo). It covers 60 km².

The Ohau ski field is located close to the southwestern shore of the lake.

The lake forms part of the traditional boundary between Otago and Canterbury regions, Otago's northernmost point being the headwaters of the Hopkins River. Officially the lake lies in the northwestern part of the Waitaki District within the southern part of the Canterbury Region.^[3]

Lake Ohau will be on the route of the Alps to Ocean Cycle Trail, to be constructed in the following years after approval in 2010.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Irwin, J. (September 1978), "Bottom sediments of Lake Tekapo compared with adjacent Lakes Pukaki and Ohau, South Island, New Zealand", N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 12 (3): 245–250, doi:10.1080/00288330.1978.9515749, retrieved 2007-11-09
↑ "Place Name Detail: Lake Ohau". New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database. Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 1 July 2008.
↑ Waitaki District Council ward area, Waitaki District Council website, retrieved 1 July 2008.

External links

Media related to Lake Ohau at Wikimedia Commons
Ski Ohau
Pictures of Ohau

v t e Towns of the Mackenzie District, Canterbury, New Zealand

Towns	Albury Burkes Pass Fairlie (seat) Kimbell Lake Tekapo Mount Cook Village Twizel

Localities	Allandale Aoraki/Mount Cook Ashwick Flat Birch Hill Black Forest Camp Valley Cannington Cattle Valley Chamberlain Clayton Cricklewood Domain Corner Eversley Glentanner Grays Hills Haldon Lake Ohau Lake Pukaki Lilybank Limestone Valley Mawaro Middle Valley Motukaika Mount Nessing Slip Panels Corner Tekapo Military Camp Trentham Winscombe

v t e Towns of the Waitaki District, Canterbury/Otago, New Zealand

Major towns	Hampden Kakanui Kurow Moeraki Oamaru Omarama Palmerston Weston

Minor towns	Dunback Duntroon Herbert Macraes Flat Maheno Ngapara Otematata Pukeuri Reidston Waitaki Bridge

Localities	Airedale All Day Bay Ardgowan Awamoko Billys Flat Black Point Bortons Clearburn Cormacks Corriedale Danseys Pass Earthquakes Elderslie Enfield Five Forks Flag Swamp Fuchsia Creek Georgetown Glenpark Goodwood Green Valley Hillgrove Hilderthorpe Incholme Inch Valley Island Cliff Island Stream Kaika Katiki Kauru Hill Kia Ora Kokoamo Kuriheka Lake Aviemore Lake Benmore Lake Ohau Lake Waitaki Lindis Pass Livingstone Maerewhenua Makareao Maraeweka Marakerake Maruakoa Meadowbank Moonlight Flat Morrisons Nenthorn Otekaieke Otepopo Otiake Papakaio Peebles Pleasant Valley Pukeraro Puketapu Queens Flat Richmond Rosebery Shag Point Shag Valley Stoneburn Strachans Tapui Taranui Te Akatarawa Teschemakers Tokarahi Totara Trotters Gorge Waianakarua Waihemo Waikaura Waimotu Wairunga Waitangi Waynes Wharekuri Whitecraig Whitstone Windsor Windsor Park

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