Mount Cook and the azure waters of Lake Pukaki
At 3764 metres, Mt Cook in New Zealand is the highest of the country's 27 mountains over 3000 metres.
It is called Aoraki (or Aorangi, ao meaning land, rangi meaning sky or heavens) by the Maori.
New Zealand's highest peak was named Mt Cook (after the British explorer Captain James Cook) by Captain Stokes of the survey ship HMS Acheron.
Mt Cook sits at the heart of New Zealand’s Alpine country, within the 700 square kilometres of Mt Cook national park, and is almost equidistant from Christchurch and Queenstown.
Lake Pukaki is a lake in New Zealand's South Island. It is the second-largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north-south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin (the others are Lakes Tekapo and Ohau). All three lakes were created by receding glaciers blocking their respective valleys with their terminal moraine (a moraine-dammed lake). The glacial feed to the lakes gives them a distinctive blue colour, created by glacial flour (extremely finely ground rock particles from the glaciers).
Mount Cook and the azure waters of Lake Pukaki
At 3764 metres, Mt Cook in New Zealand is the highest of the country's 27 mountains over 3000 metres.
It is called Aoraki (or Aorangi, ao meaning land, rangi meaning sky or heavens) by the Maori.
New Zealand's highest peak was named Mt Cook (after the British explorer Captain James Cook) by Captain Stokes of the survey ship HMS Acheron.
Mt Cook sits at the heart of New Zealand’s Alpine country, within the 700 square kilometres of Mt Cook national park, and is almost equidistant from Christchurch and Queenstown.
Lake Pukaki is a lake in New Zealand's South Island. It is the second-largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north-south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin (the others are Lakes Tekapo and Ohau). All three lakes were created by receding glaciers blocking their respective valleys with their terminal moraine (a moraine-dammed lake). The glacial feed to the lakes gives them a distinctive blue colour, created by glacial flour (extremely finely ground rock particles from the glaciers).