Mount Cook and Lake Pukaki, New Zealand #2
by Neale And Judith Clark
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Mount Cook and Lake Pukaki, New Zealand #2
Artist
Neale And Judith Clark
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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New Zealand South Island Landscape - a Long and Winding Road with no traffic in Mount Cook National Park by the side of Lake Pukaki South Island,New Zealand
Lake Pukaki is the largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin on New Zealand's South Island. The lake is now part of the Waitaki hydroelectric scheme. The lake's original outflow was at its southern end, into the Pukaki River.
Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park is in the South Island of New Zealand, near the town of Twizel. Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain, and Aoraki/Mount Cook Village lie within the park. The area was gazetted as a national park in October 1953 and consists of reserves that were established as early as 1887 to protect the area's significant vegetation and landscape.
Glaciers cover 40% of the park area, notably the Tasman Glacier in the Tasman Valley east of Aoraki / Mount Cook. Eight of the twelve largest glaciers in New Zealand lie within Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, all of which terminate at proglacial lakes formed in recent decades due to a sustained period of shrinking
Even though most of the park is alpine terrain, it is easily accessible
Alamy reference MFFDYC
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January 3rd, 2020
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