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Lake Rotoiti

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Lake Rotoiti

Mist hovers over Lake Rotoiti, in Nelson Lakes National Park. In summer the lake’s surface can have a thin layer of warmer water, up to 20ºC, but deeper down the temperature hovers around 7ºC, winter and summer. Rotoiti means ‘little lake’.

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Carl Walrond, Nelson places – Nelson lakes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29079/lake-rotoiti (accessed 19 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 31 August 2010, updated 22 April 2015.