Lake Roundabout - Ashburton Lakes - New Zealand
O Tu Wharekai (the Ashburton Lakes) are a nationally significant wetland and a cultural taonga (treasure) for Ngai Tahu Iwi Maori.
The region is known for its unique kettlehole landscape - caused by the weight of ice in the last ice age glaciation - where sometimes small sometimes very large bowl shaped depressions in the land have evolved a unique ecosystem where plants have to cope with being alternately baked dry in summer, drowned in winter and a short period in spring and Autumn when conditions are right for growing, blooming and seeding. The larger kettleholes form large but shallow and swampy lakes such as Lake Roundabout.
Lake Roundabout - Ashburton Lakes - New Zealand
O Tu Wharekai (the Ashburton Lakes) are a nationally significant wetland and a cultural taonga (treasure) for Ngai Tahu Iwi Maori.
The region is known for its unique kettlehole landscape - caused by the weight of ice in the last ice age glaciation - where sometimes small sometimes very large bowl shaped depressions in the land have evolved a unique ecosystem where plants have to cope with being alternately baked dry in summer, drowned in winter and a short period in spring and Autumn when conditions are right for growing, blooming and seeding. The larger kettleholes form large but shallow and swampy lakes such as Lake Roundabout.