body of water across asphalt road under clear blue sky, lake pukaki, mt cook HD wallpaper

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2048 x 1536

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1.07MB

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1080P

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image/jpeg

Uploaded:

2017-10-08

Wallpaper keywords:

• lake pukaki,
• mt cook,
• body of water,
• asphalt,
• sky lake,
• lake pukaki,
• mt cook,
• nz,
• new zealand,
• road,
• water,
• mountains,
• grass trees,
• snow,
• glacier ice,
• ground,
• leafs,
• passage,
• lookout,
• forest,
• peaks,
• clean,
• vivid,
• cyan blue,
• blue color,
• outdoors,
• nature,
• path,
• dex,
• mountain,
• landscape,
• scenics,
• autumn,
• travel,
• tree,
• lake

Wallpaper dominant color:

• dark olive green
• dark slate gray

Wallpaper info:

About lake pukaki

Lake Pukaki is the largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north-south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin on New Zealand's South Island. The others are Lakes Tekapo and Ohau. All three lakes were created when the terminal moraines of receding glaciers blocked their respective valleys, forming moraine-dammed lakes. The lake is fed at its northern end by the braided Tasman River, which has its source in the Tasman and Hooker Glaciers, close to Aoraki / Mount Cook. Good views of the mountain, 70 kilometres to the north can be had from the southern shore of the lake.

About mt cook

Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height since 2014 is listed as 3,724 metres (12,218 feet), down from 3,764 m (12,349 ft) before December 1991, due to a rockslide and subsequent erosion. It lies in the Southern Alps, the mountain range which runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, it is also a favourite challenge for mountain climbers. Aoraki / Mount Cook consists of three summits, from South to North the Low Peak (3,593 m or 11,788 ft), Middle Peak (3,717 m or 12,195 ft) and High Peak. The summits lie slightly south and east of the main divide of the Southern Alps, with the Tasman Glacier to the east and the Hooker Glacier to the southwest.