Hooker Lake

Hooker Lake
Hooker Glacier Lake in front of Aoraki / Mount Cook in summer
Hooker Lake
LocationMount Cook National Park, South Island
Coordinates43°40′45″S 170°06′30″E / 43.67917°S 170.10833°E / -43.67917; 170.10833
TypeProglacial lake
Primary outflowsHooker River
Basin countriesNew Zealand
Max. length2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) (2016)
Max. width0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi)
Max. depth136 metres (446 ft)
Surface elevation877 metres (2,877 ft)
Frozenmost winters

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.