Qualla: Lake Hauroko https://qualla.com/lake-hauroko en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/p/x/y/f/lake-hauroko-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lake Hauroko https://qualla.com/lake-hauroko Lake Hauroko: Introduction https://qualla.com/lake-hauroko/ Photo credit André Chalmers, CC BY-SA 3.0. The wind names this lake before you see it. Hauroko - 'soughing of the wind,' 'sounding wind' - is how Maori described what they heard here, and the description holds. The lake sits deep in Fiordland National Park, an S-shaped body of water 32 kilometres long and 462 metres deep, making it the deepest lake in New Zealand. A 30-kilometre road from the small settlement of Clifden, built around 1909 and improved in the 1960s, provides the only access by land. Prior to 1930, maps labelled it Lake Hauroto, a name that drifted away like the clouds that gather along its shores. What did not drift away was the lake's most remarkable secret, hidden for centuries in a cave on a small island at its center.

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/x/y/f/lake-hauroko-wp/pxyf-lake-hauroko-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lake Hauroko: The Lady of the Lake https://qualla.com/lake-hauroko/ Photo credit Emilio floris at English Wikipedia, Public domain. In 1967, explorers on Mary Island - the lake's largest island, named in 1883 after the wife of government surveyor John Hay - discovered a cave on the eastern shore containing a Maori burial. Seated upright on a bier of sticks and leaves, wearing a flax cloak with a dog skin coll...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/x/y/f/lake-hauroko-wp/pxyf-lake-hauroko-the-lady-of-the-lake.mp3 0:06 2 full Lake Hauroko: Carved by Ice, Shaped by Story https://qualla.com/lake-hauroko/ Photo credit Emilio floris at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Geology tells one origin story: Lake Hauroko is a glacial lake, formed near the Hauroko Fault where tectonic forces and ice worked together to gouge a basin of extraordinary depth. The surrounding rock is ancient - Hauroko granite dates to roughly 358 million years ago, a medium-...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/x/y/f/lake-hauroko-wp/pxyf-lake-hauroko-carved-by-ice-shaped-by-story.mp3 0:06 3 full Lake Hauroko: An Uncolonized Shore https://qualla.com/lake-hauroko/ Photo credit Grutness at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Lake Hauroko holds a distinction that grows rarer with each passing decade: it is one of the few New Zealand lakes not yet colonized by invasive water weeds. The exception is the bulbous rush, Juncus bulbosus, which has established a foothold, but the lake otherwise retains aquat...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/x/y/f/lake-hauroko-wp/pxyf-lake-hauroko-an-uncolonized-shore.mp3 0:06 4 full Lake Hauroko: Where the Water Goes https://qualla.com/lake-hauroko/ Photo credit André Chalmers, CC BY-SA 3.0. The lake drains south through the 20-kilometre Wairaurahiri River, which empties into Foveaux Strait about 10 kilometres west of Te Waewae Bay. This southern outlet connects Lake Hauroko to the sea through some of the most remote and least-visited country in New Zealand - the Dus...

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