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18 largest lakes in New Zealand

18 lakes, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The lakes

  1. 1Lake Taupō616 km²
  2. 2Lake Te Anau344 km²
  3. 3Lake Wakatipu291 km²
  4. 4Lake Wānaka192 km²
  5. 5Lake Pukaki163 km²
  6. 6Lake Manapouri142 km²
  7. 7Lake Hāwea141 km²
  8. 8Lake Tekapo87 km²
  9. 9Lake Rotorua / Te Rotorua nui ā Kahumatamomoe80 km²
  10. 10Lake Wairarapa78 km²
  11. 11Lake Hauroko63 km²
  12. 12Lake Waikaremoana56 km²
  13. 13Lake Ōhau54 km²
  14. 14Lake Coleridge47 km²
  15. 15Lake Poteriteri43 km²
  16. 16Lake Monowai31 km²
  17. 17Lake Rotoroa23 km²
  18. 18Lake Rotoiti9 km²

Surface area in km²: the Largest Lakes set’s figure for its lakes, else Wikidata’s (P2046) where it fits the outline, else the area of the outline. Seasonal salt pans keep their recorded figure; their area varies. Every named lake Natural Earth maps at 1:10m (with its supplements for Europe, North America and Australia), and every lake of the Largest Lakes set. The Caspian Sea counts as a lake, as in that set; coastal lagoons (the Vistula Lagoon, the Black Sea limans) do not. Countries are those on its shores, from the outlines. Natural lakes only: reservoirs (artificial lakes behind a dam, as Natural Earth or Wikidata mark them) are left out.

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