Lake Tennyson
- Area
- 2.34 km²
- Tonight
- 2°CFair · Wind 26 km/h W
Lake Tennyson is a lake at 1,099 m above sea level in Canterbury Region, New Zealand, 2.34 km² in area and 3.1 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 1,099 m
- Length
- 3.1 km
- Shoreline
- 7.7 km
Lake Tennyson in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 7.7 km≈2 h to walk around
Lake Tennyson 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 5.1 × 5.1 km
Lake Tennyson 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 Tennyson elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lake Tennyson weather
Today · Clear · 2 / 16°C (36 / 61°F) · Wind 26 km/h W
Lake Tennyson forecast for about 1,099 m.
- Today2°16°–26 km/h W
- Sun3°15°–30 km/h NW
- Mon7°9°37.3 mm50 km/h NW
- Tue0°9°0.1 mm19 km/h W
- Wed1°5°4.8 mm33 km/h NW
- Thu1°5°9.4 mm24 km/h NW
- Fri0°5°–16 km/h W
- Sat3°10°–17 km/h NW
- Sun4°9°13.4 mm26 km/h NW
- Mon3°12°14.5 mm32 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 near Lake Tennyson
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lake Tennyson, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Lake Tennyson Campsite
Nearest hut
4.7 km ENE
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Lake Tennyson CampsiteCampsite | 1.5 km SE |
| Hut | 4.7 km ENE |
| Waiau HutHut | 6.0 km WNW |
Slope
Share of the 5.1 × 5.1 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 24.3% of the 26 km² view
- Relief in view
- 798 m low point 1,065 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 2.5 km; 248 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Penwiper22
- Korikori18
- Helichrysum depressum17
- Golden Spaniard16
- Large Mountain Daisy15
- Olearia cymbifolia15
Where Lake Tennyson sits
- Region
- Canterbury Region22New Zealand112Oceania282
Nearby places
Lake Tennyson downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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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 2026-03-03)
- 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)