Lake Lyndon
- Area
- 0.82 km²
- Tonight
- 5°CFair · Wind 26 km/h NW
Lake Lyndon is a lake at 831 m above sea level in Canterbury Region, New Zealand, 0.82 km² in area and 2.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 831 m
- Length
- 2.7 km
- Shoreline
- 6.7 km
Lake Lyndon in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 6.7 km≈1¾ h to walk around
Lake Lyndon 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4.7 × 4.7 km
Lake Lyndon terrain and contours
50 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.
Lake Lyndon elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Lyndon weather
Today · Fair · 5 / 16°C (41 / 61°F) · Wind 26 km/h NW
Lake Lyndon forecast for about 831 m.
- Today5°16°–26 km/h NW
- Sun7°15°–30 km/h NW
- Mon4°13°36.1 mm59 km/h N
- Tue1°4°3.5 mm17 km/h NW
- Wed5°9°5.0 mm26 km/h NW
- Thu-3°9°0.1 mm24 km/h NW
- Fri4°9°–18 km/h NW
- Sat7°11°0.2 mm21 km/h NW
- Sun9°11°31.2 mm22 km/h N
- Mon1°7°5.8 mm14 km/h S
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lake Lyndon
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Lyndon, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.0 km NE
Nearest hut
Porters Ski Lodge
Nearest campsite
Porters Lodge Camp Sites
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.0 km NE |
| Parking | 2.2 km ENE |
| Parking | 3.4 km E |
| Porters Ski LodgeHut | 4.0 km NW |
| Porters Lodge Camp SitesCampsite | 4.0 km NW |
Slope
Share of the 4.7 × 4.7 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 37.2% of the 22 km² view
- Relief in view
- 777 m low point 707 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2.3 km; 391 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Colenso's mingimingi39
- Viper's-bugloss38
- Great Crested Grebe37
- Cotton daisy35
- Matagouri33
- Golden Spaniard33
Where Lake Lyndon sits
- Region
- Canterbury Region22New Zealand112Oceania282
Nearby places
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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 2026-03-23)
- 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
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © 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.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)