Lake Ohau
Lake Ohau | ||
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Lake Ohau | ||
Geographical location | Mackenzie Basin , Waitaki District , Canterbury Region , South Island , New Zealand | |
Tributaries | Hopkins River , Dobson River | |
Drain | Ohau River | |
Location close to the shore | Twizel | |
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Coordinates | 44 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Altitude above sea level | 520 m | |
surface | 54 km² | |
Maximum depth | 129 m | |
Middle deep | 74 m |
The Lake Ohau is a glacial lake in the Mackenzie Basin of the Waitaki District on the South Island of New Zealand . It is fed by the Hopkins and Dobson Rivers , which have their upper reaches in the New Zealand Alps . The outflow is the Ohau River , which in turn flows into the Waitaki River .
Ohau is the smallest of three lakes in the Mackenzie Basin that run almost parallel in a north-south direction. The other two are Lake Pukaki and Lake Tekapo .
The lake has a catchment area of 1198 km² and an area of 54 km². The depth of the lake averages 74 m and a maximum of 129 m. Its volume is 4.02 km³. It lies at an altitude of 520 m.
The Ohau ski area is located near the south-west coast of the lake.
The lake is part of the border between the Otago and Canterbury regions , but is in the Otagos region . Otago's northernmost point is on the upper reaches of the Hopkins River.
Power plant Ohau A
In the 1970s, the Ohau A power plant was built, which is supplied with water from Lake Ohau via a canal.
Web links
- Ohau ski area
- Weatherall Motel, Lake Ohau, New Zealand. Benmore Peak Observatory, archived from the original on October 1, 2006 ; accessed on August 26, 2014 (English, original website no longer available).
Individual evidence
- ^ J. Irwin: Bottom sediments of Lake Tekapo compared with adjacent Lakes Pukaki and Ohau, South Island, New Zealand . In: Royal Society of New Zealand (Ed.): New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research . Volume 12, Issue 3, 1978, ISSN 0028-8330 , pp. 245–250 , doi : 10.1080 / 00288330.1978.9515749 (English, online PDF [accessed on January 13, 2016]).