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Lake · New South Wales

Lake Cootapatamba

2,042 m6,699 ft
Area
0.03 km²
Tonight
7°CLight rain showers · Wind 18 km/h NW

Lake Cootapatamba is a lake at 2,042 m above sea level in New South Wales, Australia, 0.03 km² in area and 0.3 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
2,042 m
Length
0.3 km
Shoreline
0.8 km
Open the 3D view
Lake

Lake Cootapatamba in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

0.3 km longest100 mN ↑
Shoreline
0.8 km≈15 min to walk around
3D map

Lake Cootapatamba 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Lake Cootapatamba 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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the centre

Lake Cootapatamba elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Lake Cootapatamba weather

Today · Light rain showers at night · 7 / 15°C (45 / 59°F) · 3.8 mm · Wind 18 km/h NW

Lake Cootapatamba forecast for about 2,042 m.

  • Today7°15°3.8 mm18 km/h NW
  • Sun-3°11°62.3 mm27 km/h NW
  • Mon-4°6°1.3 mm18 km/h NW
  • Tue-5°2°0.8 mm14 km/h NW
  • Wed-1°7°–8 km/h NW
  • Thu2°12°–8 km/h N
  • Fri3°8°6.4 mm15 km/h NW
  • Sat-2°8°13.7 mm10 km/h NW
  • Sun-5°4°–12 km/h S
  • Mon3°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, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Lake Cootapatamba

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Cootapatamba, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

  • Nearest hut

    Cootapatamba Hut

    1.6 km SSW · +2 more within 2.4 km

    DirectionsMap

  • Nearest campsite

    WIlkinson's Creek Campsite

    2.7 km N · +2 more within 5.8 km

    DirectionsMap

  • Nearest parking

    5.6 km SE

    +2 more within 5.7 km

    DirectionsMap
All mapped places 9
PlaceDistance
Cootapatamba HutHut1.6 km SSW
Cootapatamba HutHut1.6 km SSW
Seamans HutHut2.4 km NE
WIlkinson's Creek CampsiteCampsite2.7 km N
Birralee Bush CampCampsite5.2 km SE
Parking5.6 km SE
Parking5.7 km SE
Parking5.7 km SE
Moiras FlatCampsite5.8 km NW
Slope

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 74% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
74.3%
Moderate, 15–30°
24.6%
Steep, 30–45°
1.1%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
1.1% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view
419 m low point 1,807 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 99.5%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 2 km of Lake Cootapatamba.

NESW1 km2 km123
Summit list 3
  1. 1Mount Kosciuszko2,228 m 1.0 km N
  2. 2Etheridge Ridge2,188 m 1.1 km NE
  3. 3Rams Head North2,178 m 2.0 km SSE
Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 176 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Alpine sunray91
  • Purple eyebright76
  • Mountain celery63
  • Carpet heath40
  • Mueller’s Snow-gentian38
  • Australian Edelweiss27
Where it sits

Where Lake Cootapatamba sits

Region
New South Wales34Australia156Oceania282
Protected area
Kosciuszko National Park5
Nearby

Nearby places

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Downloads

Lake Cootapatamba downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain
Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
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)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia