Hooker Lake

Hooker Lake
Hooker Glacier Lake in front of Aoraki / Mount Cook in summer
Hooker Glacier Lake in front of Aoraki / Mount Cook in summer
Location of Hooker Lake
Location of Hooker Lake
Hooker Lake
LocationMount Cook National Park, South Island
Coordinates43°40′45″S 170°06′30″E / 43.67917°S 170.10833°E / -43.67917; 170.10833
TypeProglacial lake
Primary outflowsHooker River
Basin countriesNew Zealand
Max. length2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) (2016)[1]
Max. width0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi)[1]
Max. depth136 metres (446 ft)[2]
Surface elevation877 metres (2,877 ft)
Frozenmost 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.

  1. ^ a b "Hooker Lake, Canterbury – NZ Topo Map". NZ Topo Map. Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b Charles R. Warren & Martin P. Kirkbride (1998). Temperature and bathymetry of ice-contact lakes in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand – New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. Vol. 41. Royal Society of New Zealand. pp. 133–143.