Hooker Lake | |
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Location | Mount Cook National Park, South Island |
Coordinates | 43°40′45″S 170°06′30″E / 43.67917°S 170.10833°E |
Type | Proglacial lake |
Primary outflows | Hooker River |
Basin countries | New Zealand |
Max. length | 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) (2016)[1] |
Max. width | 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi)[1] |
Max. depth | 136 metres (446 ft)[2] |
Surface elevation | 877 metres (2,877 ft) |
Frozen | most winters[2] |
Hooker Lake is a proglacial lake that started to form in the late 1970s by the recent retreat of the Hooker Glacier. It is in the Hooker Valley, in the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand's South Island, just south of Aoraki / Mount Cook.