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Lake Quill
- Area
- 1.16 km²
- Tonight
- 6°CHeavy rain · Wind 25 km/h N
Lake Quill is a lake at 969 m above sea level in Southland Region, New Zealand, 1.16 km² in area and 1.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 969 m
- Length
- 1.5 km
- Shoreline
- 4.4 km
Lake Quill in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 4.4 km≈1 h to walk around
Lake Quill 3D map
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Lake Quill terrain and contours
100 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 Quill elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Quill weather
Today · Heavy rain · 6 / 7°C (43 / 45°F) · 32.9 mm · Wind 25 km/h N
Lake Quill forecast for about 969 m.
- Today6°7°32.9 mm25 km/h N
- Sun7°8°86.0 mm32 km/h N
- Mon-2°9°174.2 mm46 km/h N
- Tue0°5°8.7 mm17 km/h NW
- Wed-1°5°65.9 mm24 km/h NW
- Thu-1°1°11.5 mm12 km/h NW
- Fri3°3°53.7 mm17 km/h NW
- Sat6°8°83.9 mm23 km/h N
- Sun1°8°131.0 mm27 km/h N
- Mon1°4°0.1 mm25 km/h SE
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 Lake Quill
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Quill, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Mintaro Hut
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Mintaro HutHut | 3.9 km E |
| Hut | 4.8 km E |
| Dumpling HutHut | 5.6 km NE |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.
- Steeper than 30°
- 65.2% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,629 m low point 231 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 Lake Quill.
Summit list 4
- 1Aiguille Rouge1,767 m 1.4 km E
- 2Couloir Peak1,682 m 1.4 km SW
- 3Mount Mackenzie1,592 m 1.7 km W
- 4Mount Hart1,679 m 1.7 km E
Where Lake Quill sits
- Region
- Southland Region7New Zealand112Oceania282
- Protected area
- Fiordland National Park7
Nearby places
Lake Marian695 m↑28 km E
Mount TūtokoPeak · 2,723 m↑33 km NE
Lake Te Anau210 m↑44 km S
Mount Earnslaw / PikirakatahiPeak · 2,830 m↑57 km ENE
Mount HeadPeak · 2,585 m↑62 km ENE
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-01-18)
- 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)
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)