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Lake Te Anau
- Area
- 341 km²
- Max depth
- 270 m
- Tonight
- 12°CLight rain · Wind 30 km/h N
Lake Te Anau is a lake at 203 m above sea level in Southland Region, New Zealand, 341 km² in area and 60.0 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 203 m
- Length
- 60.0 km
- Shoreline
- 370.7 km
Lake Te Anau 3D map
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Lake Te Anau topographic map
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 Te Anau elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Te Anau downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Lake Te Anau in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 370.7 km
Lake Te Anau weather
Today · Light rain at night · 12 / 14°C (54 / 57°F) · 1.4 mm · Wind 30 km/h N
Lake Te Anau forecast for about 203 m.
- Today12°14°1.4 mm30 km/h N
- Sun13°16°16.2 mm31 km/h N
- Mon6°15°60.3 mm40 km/h N
- Tue7°11°5.6 mm17 km/h N
- Wed7°11°31.6 mm21 km/h N
- Thu7°9°3.2 mm15 km/h NW
- Fri10°11°5.7 mm17 km/h NW
- Sat12°14°14.4 mm14 km/h N
- Sun6°14°68.5 mm18 km/h S
- Mon6°9°–22 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 Te Anau
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Te Anau, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.8 km E
Nearest campsite
Henry Creek Campsite
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.8 km E |
| Parking | 2.3 km ENE |
| Parking | 2.4 km ENE |
| Henry Creek CampsiteCampsite | 3.7 km SSE |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 81% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 5.1% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,346 m low point 202 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 10 km; 262 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mountain beech20
- Prickly mingimingi16
- Easter Orchid16
- Fly Agaric15
- Austral Bracken15
- Lancewood13
Where Lake Te Anau sits
- Region
- Southland Region7New Zealand112Oceania282
- Protected area
- Fiordland National Park7
Nearby places
Data sources
- 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)
- 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)