Hooker Lake
Hooker Lake is a proglacial lake that started to form in the late 1970s by the recent retreat of the Hooker Glacier. It is in the Hooker Valley, in the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand's South Island, just south of Aoraki / Mount Cook.
| Hooker Lake | |
|---|---|
Hooker Glacier Lake in front of Aoraki / Mount Cook in summer | |
Hooker Lake | |
| Location | Mount Cook National Park, South Island |
| Coordinates | 43°40′45″S 170°06′30″E |
| Type | Proglacial lake |
| Primary outflows | Hooker River |
| Basin countries | New Zealand |
| Max. length | 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) (2016) |
| Max. width | 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) |
| Max. depth | 136 metres (446 ft) |
| Surface elevation | 877 metres (2,877 ft) |
| Frozen | most winters |
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