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Blue Lake
- Area
- 0.15 km²
- Tonight
- 8°CRain showers · Wind 21 km/h NW
Blue Lake is a lake at 1,885 m above sea level in New South Wales, Australia, 0.15 km² in area and 0.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,885 m
- Length
- 0.5 km
- Shoreline
- 1.7 km
Blue Lake in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 1.7 km≈30 min to walk around
Blue Lake 3D map
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Blue Lake terrain and contours
20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Blue Lake elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Blue Lake weather
Today · Light rain showers · 8 / 15°C (46 / 59°F) · 6.5 mm · Wind 21 km/h NW
Blue Lake forecast for about 1,885 m.
- Today8°15°6.5 mm21 km/h NW
- Sun-1°12°79.5 mm31 km/h NW
- Mon-3°6°2.4 mm21 km/h W
- Tue-4°2°1.6 mm15 km/h W
- Wed0°8°–9 km/h NW
- Thu4°12°0.1 mm9 km/h NW
- Fri5°9°6.9 mm10 km/h NW
- Sat1°10°14.5 mm8 km/h W
- Sun-3°7°0.1 mm9 km/h S
- Mon4°9°–10 km/h NW
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Blue Lake
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Blue Lake, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
3.4 km SSE
Nearest hut
Opera House
Nearest campsite
WIlkinson's Creek Campsite
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 3.4 km SSE |
| Opera HouseHut | 4.0 km WNW |
| Parking | 5.0 km SE |
| Parking | 5.7 km ENE |
| Seamans HutHut | 5.9 km SSW |
| WIlkinson's Creek CampsiteCampsite | 6.2 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 57% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 7.9% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 536 m low point 1,658 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 2 km of Blue Lake.
Summit list 3
- 1Little Twynam2,131 m 0.9 km NE
- 2Mount Twynam2,195 m 1.2 km N
- 3Tenison Woods Knoll2,134 m 1.9 km NW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 171 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Purple eyebright43
- Alpine sunray27
- Mountain celery25
- Carpet heath22
- Australian Caraway17
- Mueller’s Snow-gentian17
Where Blue Lake sits
- Region
- New South Wales34Australia156Oceania282
- Protected area
- Kosciuszko National Park5
Nearby places
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-01-23)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)