This vista is shot from the Deer Park Heights and looks down both arms of
the lake. The central mountain is
Cecil Peak and the mountain range on the left of the image is The
Remarkables.
Extra Information
Lake Wakatipu is an inland lake (finger lake) in the South Island of New
Zealand. It is at 45°3?S, 168°30?E, in the southwest corner of Otago, near
its boundary with Southland.
With a length of 80 kilometres, it is New Zealand's longest lake, and, at
291 kmē, its third largest. It is at an altitude of 310 metres, towards the
southern end of the Southern Alps. The general topography is a reversed "N"
shape. The Dart River flows into the northern end, the lake then runs south
for 30 kilometres before turning abruptly to the east. Twenty kilometres
further along, it turns sharply to the south, reaching its southern end 30
kilometres further south, near Kingston.
The lake is drained by the Kawarau River, which flows out from the lake's
Frankton Arm, 8km east of Queenstown. Queenstown is on the northern shore
of the lake close to eastern end of its middle section. The lake is very
deep, its floor being as low as 100 metres below sea level. It has a seiche
of period 26.7 minutes which, in Queenstown Bay, causes the water level to
rise and fall some 200 millimetres.[1]
 "Lake Wakatipu - Click for larger image")
