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Lake Mapourika
- Area
- 8.90 km²
- Tonight
- 10°CLight rain showers · Wind 23 km/h W
Lake Mapourika is a lake at 84 m above sea level in West Coast Region, New Zealand, 8.90 km² in area and 5.2 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 84 m
- Length
- 5.2 km
- Shoreline
- 17.4 km
Lake Mapourika in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 17.4 km≈4¼ h to walk around
Lake Mapourika 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 7.2 × 7.2 km
Lake Mapourika 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.
Lake Mapourika elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Mapourika weather
Today · Light rain · 10 / 15°C (50 / 59°F) · 0.8 mm · Wind 23 km/h W
Lake Mapourika forecast for about 84 m.
- Today10°15°0.8 mm23 km/h W
- Sun11°16°15.7 mm22 km/h N
- Mon10°14°96.3 mm50 km/h N
- Tue8°13°1.0 mm28 km/h W
- Wed8°12°27.9 mm23 km/h W
- Thu4°12°6.1 mm20 km/h W
- Fri9°12°10.6 mm21 km/h W
- Sat11°13°33.5 mm10 km/h NE
- Sun13°13°102.4 mm19 km/h NE
- Mon11°15°12.3 mm19 km/h NE
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 Mapourika
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Mapourika, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.6 km ENE
Nearest campsite
Ottos Corner
Nearest hut
7.4 km SW
Nearest caravan site
Franz Josef NZMCA Park
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.6 km ENE |
| Parking | 1.8 km SE |
| Parking | 2.1 km ENE |
| Ottos CornerCampsite | 2.9 km NE |
| MacDonalds campsiteCampsite | 3.1 km NE |
| Franz Josef Top 10 Holiday ParkCampsite | 6.4 km SSW |
| Hut | 7.4 km SW |
| Franz Josef NZMCA ParkCaravan site | 7.4 km S |
| Orange SheepCaravan site | 7.7 km S |
Slope
Share of the 7.2 × 7.2 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 64% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 9.2% of the 52 km² view
- Relief in view
- 423 m low point 74 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 3.6 km; 193 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Great Egret12
- Kidney fern12
- Kahikatea11
- Scarlet rātā vine11
- Blue pinkgill10
- Umbrella fern8
Where Lake Mapourika sits
- Region
- West Coast Region6New Zealand112Oceania282
- Protected area
- Westland Tai Poutini National Park5
Nearby places
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-02-14)
- 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)
- 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)