Pauline Allen, Moody Lake Wakatipu (LANDSCAPE 2025)

Lake Wakatipu (Māori: Whakatipu Waimāori) is an inland lake (finger lake) in the South Island of New Zealand. It is in the southwest corner of the Otago region, Lake Wakatipu comes from the original Māori name Whakatipu wai-māori. With a length of 80 kilometres (50 mi), it is New Zealand's longest lake and also very deep. Lake Wakatipu is known for its scenery and is surrounded by mountains. Two mountain ranges, the Remarkables and the Tapuae-o-Uenuku / Hector Mountains, lie along its southeastern edge. It is a common venue for adventure tourism, with ski fields, paragliding, bungy jumping and tramping tracks within easy reach. A vintage steamboat, the TSS Earnslaw regularly plies its waters. Lake Wakatipu is a habitat for the longfin eel (a specimen caught in 1886 is the largest known of this species[13]), and for introduced brown trout, salmon and rainbow trout

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