Lake Pukaki
Turquoise glacier-fed lake dammed by moraine, with long views north to the highest Southern Alps.
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This guide to Lake Pukaki, in the Mackenzie Basin north-east of Queenstown, follows Julius Haast, Canterbury's provincial geologist, through the high country around Aoraki, Mount Cook in eighteen sixty-two, officially sent to look for gold. It touches a quarrel over credit with a British geologist on the far side of the world, and the question of where lakes like this one come from. Best heard on the southern shore, facing the mountains.
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