List of lakes of New Zealand



This is a list of lakes in New Zealand.

A lake's location is identified by the region and either the territorial authority or national park (N.P.).

There are:
 * 43 lakes with a surface area larger than 10 km2 (1000 ha)
 * 231 lakes greater than 0.5 km2 (50 ha)
 * 3822 lakes greater than 0.01 km2 (1 ha)

Largest
Lakes with a surface area of more than 10 km2

Deepest lakes
Maximum depth and average depth in metres:


 * Lake Hauroko: 462 and ~117.
 * Lake Manapouri: 444 and 149.
 * Lake Te Anau: 425 and ~169.
 * Lake Wakatipu: 420 and 130.
 * Lake Hāwea: 392 and ~101.
 * Lake Wānaka: ~311 and 99.

These six lakes are all in the South Island. The deepest lake in the North Island is Lake Waikaremoana, which has a depth of 256 m.

Northland
The following lakes are located in the Northland Region.

Auckland
The following lakes are located in the Auckland Region.

Many of the lakes in the Auckland Region are man made reservoirs, constructed in the hilly catchment areas of the Waitakere and Hunua ranges in order to provide a water supply for the Auckland urban area.

Waikato
The following lakes are located in the Waikato region. The various pools of the Tongariro River system, as listed below, can be found in detail on their own page at Pools of the Tongariro River.

Pools of the Tongariro River
The following is a list of named pools on the Tongariro River. Full details of these pools, many of which are little more than widenings of the river or clear areas of the river's delta marshes, can be found at Pools of the Tongariro River.


 * Admirals Pool
 * Bain Pool
 * Barlows Pool
 * Beggs Pool
 * Big Bend Pool
 * Blue Pool
 * Boulder Pool
 * Breakaway Pool
 * Breakfast Pool
 * Cattle Rustlers Pool
 * Cherry Pool
 * Cliff Pool
 * Cobham Pool
 * Dans Pool
 * DeLatours Pool
 * Downs Pool
 * Duchess Pool
 * Fan Pool
 * Fence Pool
 * Graces Pool
 * Hydro Pool
 * Island Pool
 * Jellicoe Pool
 * Jones Pool
 * Judges Pool
 * Kamahi Pool
 * Log Pool
 * Lonely Pool
 * Lower Birch Pool
 * Major Jones Pool
 * Never Fail Pool
 * Poplar Pool
 * Poutu Pool
 * Red Hut Pool
 * Reed Pool
 * Sand Pool
 * Shag Pool
 * Silly Pool
 * Stag Pool
 * Swirl Pool
 * The Bends Pool
 * The Rip
 * Upper Birch Pool
 * Upper Island Pool
 * Waddells Pool
 * Whitikau Pool

Bay of Plenty
The following lakes are located in the Bay of Plenty Region.

Gisborne
The following lakes are located in the Gisborne Region.

Hawke's Bay
The following lakes are located in the Hawke's Bay Region.

Taranaki
The following lakes are located in the Taranaki Region.

Manawatū-Whanganui
The following lakes are located in the Manawatū-Whanganui region.

Wellington
The following lakes are located in the Wellington Region.

Tasman
The following lakes are located in the Tasman Region.

Nelson
The following lakes are located in the Nelson Region.

Marlborough
The following lakes are located in the Marlborough Region.

West Coast
The following lakes are located in the West Coast region.

Canterbury
The following lakes are located in the Canterbury region.

Otago
The following lakes are located in the Otago region.

Southland
The following lakes are located in the Southland region.

Chatham Islands
Many of the lakes in the Chatham Islands are either lagoons filling sinkholes in the island's limestone structure, or low-lying peat lakes. The island chain is dominated by Te Whanga Lagoon, which occupies the centre of the main island and accounts for one sixth of the surface area of the archipelago.

Ross Dependency
The following lakes are located in Ross Dependency, New Zealand's claim in Antarctica.